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Human life consists in mutual service. No grief pain misfortune or 'broken heart' is excuse for cutting off one's life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.
Human life consists in mutual service. No grief pain misfortune or 'broken heart' is excuse for cutting off one's life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.
Approximate author period: c. 1897 AD · industrial
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- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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- Approximate author period: c. 1897 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period evidence for Charlotte Perkins Gilman: life dates 1860 to 1935. Wikidata Q287752, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q287752 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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