“Just as the desperate, terminally ill cancer patient often turns to expensive placebos for an imaginary chance at more life, the desperate, terminally alive sad people turn to expensive placebos for a chance to imagine a decent life.”
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Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide
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