The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
It took me a long time to make that leap to being a grown-up and responsible adult because I carried on being a child actor into my late twenties. It's OK to be precocious when you're young, but when you're a man of about 27 or 28 and playing a 17-year-old in a TV show, it kind of prolongs your childhood.
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
As the war on terrorism spreads and prolongs, the fruits of ending the threat of terrorism around the world will be tempered with a whole new series of problems to be addressed and resolved.
Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life.