The much-praised hospice movement may now be asked to help patients decide not how to die but when to die.
The average American is 36 times more likely to die from heart disease than be murdered, six times more likely to die in an accident and four times more likely to die from Alzheimer's disease, according to data compiled by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.
Preparing to die is one thing, but preparing to die in a timely fashion is quite another.
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So do the zero-growth, sustainable-growth, right-to-die, duty-to-die, life boat bio-ethicists who dominate so much of our intellectual discussion.
The last time the surtax was around, some couples tried to plan around it by having some assets taxed in the estate of the first spouse to die and some taxed in the estate of the second spouse to die, says Kaufman.
Though hard knowledge of the risks is scant to nonexistent, guesses by the government's mad-cow experts suggest that the average Briton is 60 times more likely to die by lightning, 750 times more likely to drown in the bathtub, 24, 000 times more likely to die playing soccer.
Jeremy Morris found in the 1950s that London's double-decker bus drivers were more likely to die from cardiovascular disease than the bus conductors, and that government clerks were more likely to die than mail carriers.
When these cells die, they tend to die from the inside of the heart's pumping chamber and move outward.
In response, Professor Richard Dawkins, a high profile atheist, was asked to broadcast an alternative Thought for the Day , but his thought - that "we have been born and we are going to die, but before we die we have time to understand why we were born" - was broadcast in a different slot on the programme.
Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.
Backers of the bill originally wanted to extend the right to die to children as young as 12 years old.
The fact that she was going to die within a year refused to cancel out the fact that she might die now.
People living in the poorest communities are around six times more likely to be admitted to hospital and to die due to alcohol misuse than those from the most affluent areas.
He was confined to a bed in the living room and was in pain, but had expressed no desire to die or to have anyone help him end his life, the jury heard.
The researchers said 71% of the respondents would prefer to live 15 years in a wheelchair than die after 10 or five years in a wheelchair - but the remaining 29% said they would prefer to die earlier rather than spend 15 years in a wheelchair.
Who would be so sick as to make up a person just to have them die to intentionally hurt and most publicly embarrass this model of a student-athlete?
Back to the teapot: It didn't take long for motorists on Southern California's 405 freeway -- where evening plans go to die -- to notice something in the sky that looked a little unusual.
But the latest Die Hard movie with Bruce Willis, titled A Good Day To Die Hard, opens on 14 February and is expected to buck the trend.
"We found that patients exposed to high ICU workload were more likely to die than those exposed to lower workload, " they said.
Cancer specialists know that because prostate cancer is usually a slow growing disease, many men are likely to die from other causes before they would die from prostate cancer.
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But the best reason that we have to believe in the moons of Jupiter is that no one has to be prepared to die for them in order for them to be real.
He told jurors that neither officer was accused of being responsible for his death, but "having detained him following a struggle, each neglected his duty, each failed to take reasonable and proper care of him and, through that neglect, though plainly not with that intention, allowed him to die in front of them without taking action to seek to prevent it".
"Our enemy here is not going to do some kind of final stand where they die to the last man, " Oliver says.
It aimed to preserve the estate-tax exemption of the first spouse to die, while making sure the survivor had enough to live on.
Women need only to prepare their skills and hone their abilities to eventually take those slots the old boys would die to give up.
The standard plan in this asset range aims to preserve the estate-tax exemption of the first spouse to die, while making sure the survivor has enough to live on.
To live -- and to die -- like Steve Jobs, then, is to live simply, to challenge the norm, to never let success change you.
What I prayed was for God to either let me die or to give me one minute of peace from the obsession and sickness that was tearing me apart body and soul.
Though Kemmler confessed to the crime and said publicly that he was prepared to die, Westinghouse secretly financed an all-out legal effort to win a stay of execution, challenging the constitutionality of electrocution.
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