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| 594dbdb | In the latter months of his own long sickness the Master Herbal had taught him much of the healer's lore, and the first lesson and the last of all that lore was this: Heal the wound and cure the illness, but let the dying spirit go. | death-and-dying palliative-care healing medicine | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 39a1534 | "The palliative care nurses welcome him: he's a spot of brightness, they claim he keeps the patients interested in life. "We don't think of the clients here as dying," one of them said to him on his first visit. "After all everyone's dying, just some of us more slowly." | palliative-care | Margaret Atwood |