Default
A preselected option adopted by a computer program or other mechanism when no alternative is specified by the user or programmer.
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I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.
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― Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
― Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
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We imagine that we can wait until the doctors tell us that there is nothing more they can do. But rarely is there nothing more that doctors can do. They can give toxic drugs of unknown efficacy, operate to try to remove part of the tumor, put in a feeding tube if a person can’t eat: there’s always something. We want these choices. But that doesn’t mean we are eager to make the choices ourselves. Instead, most often, we make no choice at all. We fall back on the default, and the default is: Do So
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― Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
― Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End