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Ivan Illich

Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.
Ivan Illich
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Ivan Illich is saying that good health comes from living in a safe, supportive home with proper nutrition and a balanced environment that supports every stage of life. He argues that when these natural conditions are met, people do not require government or institutional control over basic life processes like reproduction and death.

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