Why is not the jugular vein as much at our disposal as the median vein?
For a desperate disease a desperate cure.

Servius the grammarian, being tormented with the gout, could think of no better remedy than to apply poison to his legs, to deprive them of their sense; let them be gouty at their will, so they were insensible of pain.

God gives us leave enough to go when He is pleased to reduce us to such a condition that to live is far worse than to die.

'Tis weakness to truckle under infirmities, but it's madness to nourish them.

The Stoics say, that it is living according to nature in a wise man to, take his leave of life, even in the height of prosperity, if he do it opportunely; and in a fool to prolong it, though he be miserable, provided he be not indigent of those things which they repute to be according to nature.