When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesth…

Richard Dawkins
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When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2008). The God Delusion, p.400, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix. ✨ Richard Dawkins (2008). The God Delusion, p.400, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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