The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.
I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures. - Christiaan Barnard
I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.
- Christiaan Barnard
It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms. - Christiaan Barnard
It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.
For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he knows he is at the end. If a li… - Christiaan Barnard
For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he knows he is at the end. If a li…
I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it. - Christiaan Barnard
I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.
I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and th… - Christiaan Barnard
I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and th…
I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one a… - Christiaan Barnard
I had bought two male chimps from a primate colony in Holland. They lived next to each other in separate cages for several months before I used one a…
Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is. - Christiaan Barnard
Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.
If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound … - Christiaan Barnard
If the poor overweight jogger only knew how far he had to run to work off the calories in a crust of bread he might find it better in terms of pound …
The individual is the brain, not the heart. - Christiaan Barnard
The individual is the brain, not the heart.
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