Word: painlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...care and fear invasive medical intervention to the bitter end, or a lingering, undignified death while hooked up to life-prolonging technologies. A Gallup Poll conducted last April found that 75 percent of Americans believe that doctors should be allowed to end the lives of terminally ill patients by painless means if the patient requests it. Two appeals cases on this issue made it to the U.S. Supreme Court this summer; the Court ruled that there was not a constitutional right to receive physician aid-in-dying, thus effectively turning the issue over to state legislatures for further discussion...
Death by injection is too painless. Life in prison is comparable to a stay at camp. Let's reinstate hard labor and send animals like McVeigh to Devil's Island, the way the French used to. FRANCOISE M. RICH Universal City, Texas...
DEACTIVATION IS PAINLESS...
...road to medical school is often paved with difficulties, but the advising system at Harvard is designed to make the process as painless as possible...
These books make history not only painless but also pleasurable. Few readers, given the choice, would sacrifice modern conveniences to live there; but through the pages of these elegant travelogues, the past is a great place to visit...