There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.

I’m not afraid of being dead. I’m just afraid of what you might have to go through to get there.

This is what I find so strange: we are not necessarily kind to animals. We use them, we eat them. But we don’t like them to suffer. Yet humans must. They have to wait for...