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Wheeler hopes that we can discover, within the context of physics, a principle that will enable the universe to come into existence "of its own accord. " In his search for such a theory, he remarks: "No guiding principle would seem more powerful than the requirement that it should provide the universe with a way to come into being. " Wheeler likened this 'self-causing' universe to a self-excited circuit in electronics.

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The dignity to be sought in death is the appreciation by others of what one has been in life,. . . that proceeds from a life well lived and from the acceptance of one's own death as a necessary process of nature. . . . It is also the recognition that the real event taking place at the end of our life is our death, not the attempts to prevent it.

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To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician.

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The dignity we seek in dying is not to be found in our final weeks, days or moments but in the way we live and how we are seen by those people whose lives we affect.

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The belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and society’s, attempt to deal with the reality of what is all too frequently a series of destructive events that involve by their very nature the disintegration of the dying person’s humanity. I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.

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For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly things can-if the readiness and resolve are there-be the real harvest of our lives.

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There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.

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