Word: coma
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...otherwise handicapped Sébire, and left her wracked with pain for hours on end despite medication to allay her suffering. Sebire explained her request for medically assisted suicide saying she wanted to leave the world following an evening of celebration with her three children - and avoid the prolonged coma she'd most likely fall into, which would make her a burden to her family...
...kitchen table, and tried not to cry. I was 16 years old, and completely license-less.I knew how to drive. In fact, I had been driving flawlessly all summer, excluding that one unfortunate incident with a squirrel that lived on my street. But he was only in a coma, and made a full recovery. I’m sure of it.I worked the blinkers like a pro, knew all the different speed settings of the windshield wipers, could make a mean three-point turn, and had even conquered the dreaded parallel-park maneuver. But apparently, the State...
...sustaining treatment, but in no way permits active measures to provoke death. Sebire and her backers retort that preventing her from getting medical assistance to end her life swiftly and painlessly ensures months or years of additional torment from pain. Her death will come, they say, after a long coma that will reduce her to being nothing but an inanimate burden on her family...
...Some government officials have suggested that while the judge will likely reject her case on Monday, it may be possible for her to be hospitalized and put into an artificial coma without being fed until she dies. That passive form of euthanasia, Sebire objected, was "neither dignified, humane, or respectful of me or my children." Should she lose, Sebire's lawyer says she'll either appeal, if she feels the strength to fight on, or give up her efforts to die in France on her own terms, and check into a Swiss facility specializing in assisted suicide. "It's hard...
...York Times titled: “If the First Bite Doesn’t Do It, the Second Will.” It’s a piece about the comparative anatomy of pharyngeal jaws in moray eels. If reading this article sounds like a solid method for inducing coma to you, then perhaps you never got to the second and third paragraphs, which read...