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- The Decision to Live
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- Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD, and Isadora
- Rosenbaum, MA
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- "Hope is the thing with feathers
- That perches in the soul,
- And sings the tune without the words,
- And never stops at all."
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- — Emily Dickinson
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- As medical professionals, we have always been fascinated with the power of the will to live,
- with the way some of our patients cope with
- chronic disease even under the threat of death.
- We've observed how they refuse to let
- physical discomfort affect their enjoyment
- of family and friends or prevent them from