Adequate planning will help a senior confront challenges and death with dignity.

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Oregon voters approved the Death With Dignity Act at the polls in 1994, and voted down legislation that would have repealed it in 1997.

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Or of the unity of the Ghanaians as John Atta Mills dropped his baton - a death greeted with dignity by chiefs and villagers, heads of state and street children.

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"Rather than there being the prolongation of life, there would be the prolongation of death and lack of dignity, " Ms Watson added.

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Ms Fleming, a former university lecturer, pleaded last month with a specially-convened hearing to spare her a horrible death and let her be helped to die lawfully with dignity, surrounded by her family.

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On Dixey's death in 1964, an obituary said "because of her natural dignity and refinement both on the stage and in private life, she played a leading part in making striptease into an acceptable entertainment".

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Davina Hehir, a Dignity in Dying director, said they were "deeply saddened by the news of Kelly's death".

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