" Suppose that preventive care uncovered some condition that would require agonizing treatments or sacrifices on my part - disfiguring surgery, radiation, drastic lifestyle limitations. Maybe these measures would add years to my life, but it would be a painful and depleted life that they prolonged. "

― Barbara Ehrenreich , Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer