Both countries will be welcomed into Nato during its 60th anniversary summit in Strasbourg, France, and Kehl, Germany, later this week.

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He is due a day later at a NATO summit split between Strasbourg and Kehl, a town in south-western Germany, that will mark the alliance's 60th anniversary.

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Nursing professor Karen Kehl, in an article called "Moving Toward Peace: An Analysis of the Concept of a Good Death, " ranked the attributes of a graceful death, among them: being comfortable and in control, having a sense of closure, making the most of relationships and having family involved in care.

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For me, of course, it was a pleasure to meet the President of the United States, President Obama, for the first time here in the Oval Office in the run-up, indeed, to the NATO summit in the beginning of April, so less than two weeks away in Strasbourg and Kehl, in France and Germany -- in the heart of Europe, by the way, which is an interesting place to celebrate NATO's 60th anniversary.

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