Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.

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Christopher Hitchens

Anxiety Endurance Experience Grave Illness Involves Like Long Long Periods Pain Periods Stark Terminal Terror Warfare

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