Interruption of Life

“So if you have a kind of absolutism, if you don’t contextualize it and you just look at it even if you’re not looking at it as murder or killing, in the grossest terms, but simply as the interruption of life processes that we would prefer under other circumstances go forward, it always has a dimension of loss to it.”

Frances Kissling, On Being, “What is Good in the Position of the Other”