… I will tell you something about this beautiful, enlightened planet of Camatotz… Perhaps you do not realise that on Camatotz we have conquered all illness, all deformity… We let no-one suffer.
It is much kinder simply to annihilate anyone who is ill.
Nobody has weeks and weeks of runny noses and sore throats. Rather than endure such discomfort they are simply put to sleep.
Madeleine L’Engle – A Wrinkle in Time