"Don't be afraid of death Winnie, be afraid of the unlived life."
What's ideal: quantity or qualitity? Obviously one wishes to have both-but which would you choose, if you had to. Berry wrestles with this very question and the story of Lily in his essay Quanity vs. Form.
Is death something that should be avoided and be put off at all costs or is it the completion of a life?
Where do we meet in the middle? It is one thing to bring death upon oneself, and another entirely to not wish to allow science to extend one's life until it's nothing more than machinery moving one's breath in and out. This is a very touchy subject that has intrigued me personally for some time; yet it's still all very new territory. Ethics has long been forgotten in this pursuit of immortality, but it's time for a change. It is time to understand balance. To allow for autonomy to decide where the balance between quanity and quality lies.
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