Word: die
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Humphry, who founded the Hemlock Society, has been campaigning for lawful physician aid-in-dying for the terminally ill since 1978, when he helped his terminally ill wife to die...
Sissela Bok, distinguished fellow of the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, said she felt that the desire of people to die was a symptom of the inadequate care that the current medical system supplies. She cited a study asserting that, "70 percent of those polled would prefer palliative care to euthanasia...
...What's all this about the right to die? We're all going to die," he said. "That's one right that I would like to waive...
...feel the surgeon make six "slicing, burning" laparoscopic incisions in her abdomen, but she was trapped by the paralytic drugs given along with the anesthesia, and she couldn't cry out or even open her eyes. "I was screaming in a black hole," she recalls. "I thought I would die on the table and nobody would know what happened...
...sympathy of any stony conservative, for he was one of the longest-lived survivors of cystic fibrosis, a lung disease that takes most of its victims in childhood. His daft wit even turned his affliction into a Mary Poppins-style ditty: "Supermasochistic Bob has cystic fibrosis/ He should've died when he was young, but he was too precocious.../ A lifetime of infection and his lungs all filled with phlegm/ The CS would have killed him if it weren't for S&M/ Hum-diddle-iddle-iddle I'm gonna die...