Jacob M. Appel Quotes - Page 2

• There is a fundamental difference, however, between asking to be permitted to keep a vegetative relative on costly machinery, and asking the taxpayers or society as a whole to pay for such machinery.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Differences, Asking, Fundamentals

  "Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing: The Struggle for the Legacy of Ruben Betancourt". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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• Much as constitutional guarantees of press freedom do little good for prospective publishers if they do not have access to paper or ink, the right to aid in dying is strikingly useless if nobody is willing to help.

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  Dying, Ink, Guarantees

  "Big Sky Dilemma: Must Doctors Help Their Patients Die?". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2009.

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• I am grateful that I have rights in the proverbial public square - but, as a practical matter, my most cherished rights are those that I possess in my bedroom and hospital room and death chamber.

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  Grateful, Squares, Rights

  "A Culture of Liberty". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2009.

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• The cold, cruel reality is that with one current justice now approaching ninety, and four others over seventy, the day will inevitably arrive when a sitting justice lies in an intensive care unit, both unable to resign and unable to resume his or her duties.

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  Lying, Reality, Justice

  "Anticipating the Incapacitated Justice". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2009.

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• The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuading yourself to stop.

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  Sex, Difficult, Persuading

  "The Biology of Luck". Book by Jacob Appel, 2013.

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• Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.

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  Country, Born, Convinced

  "The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up". Book by Jacob M. Appel, 2012.

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• Most people are far more concerned that they can control their own bodies than they are about petitioning Congress.

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  People, Body, Congress

  "A Culture of Liberty". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2009.

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• Such is the demographic paradox of a junior physician's relationship with his patients: I worry about how to extend their lives. This anxiety inevitably shortens my own.

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  Worry, Anxiety, Physicians

  Jacob M. Appel (2014). “Phoning Home: Essays”, p.55, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• A century ago, people laughed at the notion that we were descended from monkeys. Today, the individuals most offended by that claim are the monkeys.

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  People, Monkeys, Today

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• I can handle being married for my money; it's being married for my life insurance that gives me pause.

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  Giving, Married, Give Me

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• I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing.

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  Dream, Used, Convincing

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• This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.

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  Electric Shock, Empty Rooms, White

  Jacob M. Appel (2014). “Phoning Home: Essays”, p.62, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• If freedom means anything at all, it is the right to primacy in regard to sexuality, reproduction, medical care and death.

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  Mean, Care, Medical

  "A Culture of Liberty" by Jacob M. Appel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2009.

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