An Irreplaceable Compact
Euthanasia, Cadogan thought: they all regard it as that, and not as wilful slaughter, not as the violent cutting-off of an irreplaceable compact of passion and desire and affection and will; not as a thrust into unimagined and illimitable darkness.
— Edmund Crispin, 1946
From the book The Moving Toyshop
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