He, who plucks out a tooth, parts with it freely, since the pain goes with it: and he, who quits the whole body, parts at once with all pains, and possibilities of pains and diseases, it was liable to, or capable of making him suffer.
Franklin compares the act of removing a painful tooth to the release from the body at death, emphasizing relief from suffering.
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