I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and that is stop the suffering of the patient.
Christiaan Barnard|Christiaan Barnard, cardiac surgeon
A long illness seems to be placed between life and death, in order to make death a comfort both to those who die and to those who remain.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645–1696)
死神の附いた耳へは、意見も道理も入るまいとは思へど、さりとは愚痴の至り
To the ears of one possessed by the God of Death, reason and objections seem like so many idle complaints.
Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank – but that's not the same thing.
Joseph Conrad
Death is my final civil liberty, and I do not choose to surrender it to the state, a church or a physician.
Frederick Ellis
We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Ben Franklin
The Wood of Suicides has changed since my last visit to Hell. I remember it as a tiny grove. Now it resembles a forest.
Dream; Neil Gaiman, The Sandman (Vertigo)|The Sandman 4
Haroon Lorgat is a
South African, of Indian originIndian South Africans are people of Indian descent living in South Africa and mostly live in and around the city of Durban, making it 'the largest 'Indian' city outside India'. Most Indians in South Africa are descendents of migrants from colonial India during late 19th-century through early...
, businessman and
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. He was appointed Chief Executive of the
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in April 2008 and assumed office on 4 July 2008, succeeding
Malcolm SpeedMalcolm Walter Speed is an Australian businessman and the former CEO of the International Cricket Council.Before he entered the world of cricket, he was a barrister in Melbourne. He was originally the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Cricket Board from 1997 until in 2001, he took up the...
, an
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n.
Lorgat was an executive director of Kapela Investment Holdings, based in
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and
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, and was a senior partner of
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from 2002 until 2007, before joining the ICC. His office is in Dubai.
Lorgat is of
IndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n descent, his family originating from a small village in western India called
ManekporeManekpore - Rethvania is a village in the state of Gujarat in western India off Indian National Highway 8 pincode IS 396560 on Vansda Road from where you can travel to ahwa, via waghai, and vansda, and to the hill station of Saputara.-Population:...
, Rethvania in the Indian state of
Gujarat.
He is a member of the
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. He played first-class cricket in the
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from 1977 until 1991, in the final years of apartheid.
He has been married to Farah Ebrahim since 10 February 1985 and they have at least two children, Mohamed Zaheer and Naseera.
He played a key role in the decision to limit the
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to just 10 teams, barring any participation of Associate members. This has led to criticism from not only the affected teams, but from players from the
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nations, their coaches and followers of cricket.