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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 true health comes from living in balanced, supportive conditions throughout all stages of life, including where we live, what we eat, and the environment around us. He argues that when people are genuinely healthy, they don’t need government or institutional control to manage natural human activities like reproduction and aging.

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