Most laws also require that the patient should be terminally ill: yet this definition is almost too broad to be useful.
Although elderly patients may qualify for a variety of Medicare-paid services, hospice care is supposed to be limited to terminally ill patients receiving palliative care.
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Last year, Forbes.com studied these differences (See: " The Best Places to Die") and discovered that when it comes to end-of-life issues, geography can be destiny for the terminally ill.
Why should the right to die be confined only to the terminally ill or those in great pain?
Montana's Supreme Court has ruled that the practice of physicians helping terminally ill patients could be considered part of medical treatments.
It is "completely wrong" for terminally ill patients to be put on a "pathway" to death without relatives being consulted, a health minister has said.
Health minister Norman Lamb said this week that it was "completely wrong" for terminally-ill patients to be put on a "pathway" to death without relatives being consulted.
Legislation can be designed to allow the partner of a terminally ill woman to assist her suicide, the Irish Supreme Court has heard.
The terminally ill, however, should be offered the help they seek.
Relatives of terminally-ill patients would have to be consulted before a decision to withdraw food or water is taken, under new government proposals.
The Irish Supreme Court is to hear the case on Tuesday of a terminally-ill woman who wants to be allowed to get the help of others to die.
But it would not have covered Sir Edward, old, frail and soon to be bereaved one way or another but not terminally ill.
Mrs Weaver, 78, does not know if her husband agreed to be put on the care pathway, under which doctors can stop treatment for terminally ill patients.
Terminally-ill people with less than six months to live will not be affected by the changes.
Thousands of terminally-ill people have begun receiving letters warning them their benefits could be cut in April even though Parliament has yet to approve the changes.
Rees refused to answer police questions when he was arrested but, on being told Mrs Parsons was terminally ill, he offered to show police where he had taken the rings to be sold.
So AstraZeneca followed the time-tested approach for cancer drugs: It had initially tested Iressa on terminally ill patients with various cancer types, hoping for hints as to which tumors might be most vulnerable.
Take for example a situation where a terminally-ill father has decided that his gift to his children upon his passing will be the total of his IRA, converted to Roth and with the taxes paid from his other sources, so that the Roth account will be available tax-free to the children.
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