The real lesson: You should not have to be dying to get this care.
Dying used to be accompanied by a prescribed set of customs.
After his father dies, Mr Godwin struggles with his dying wish to be cremated: the crematoriums are out of butane gas, the morgues are out of diesel.
"Their problem is that unless you have a network of thousands of planes and thousands of pilots, you're going to be dying for people to fly, " says Richard L. Aboulafia, an aviation analyst with the Teal Group in Fairfax, Va.
Say a homeowner is advised by a tree trimmer that a backyard tree is dying and needs to be chopped down.
Besides, how do you attend to the thoughts and concerns of the dying when medicine has made it almost impossible to be sure who the dying even are?
The test was designed to prevent women dying from anaemia and was designed to be easy for healthcare workers - often untrained - to use in the field.
Of the three types of coniferous trees studied, pines were found to be dying at the fastest rate.
The world's languages, which number about 6, 900, are reckoned to be dying out at the rate of one a fortnight.
Introduced by Qualcomm in early 2009, smartbook seems to be dying a slow death, trampled under the bumrush for tablets.
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Manufacturing is growing in Charleston, as factories expand and new ones open, even as it seems to be dying a public death in the rest of the country.
To some, the purchase was a head-scratching gambit: The sport of horse racing is perceived to be dying a slow, inexorable death, an ember of the 20th-century sporting scene, like boxing.
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The Republican Party is dying and will be unable to sustain itself over the long run in its current form.
Stradivari himself made around 1, 100 instruments, a huge number by any standard, because he lived to be 93 and worked obsessively to his dying breath.
Wingers were thought to be a dying breed in European soccer.
Prof Robin Ferner said the amount of painkillers and sedatives given to Mrs Richards would normally only be given to someone who was dying.
It is an entirely different thing to sit with a 45-year-old mother who is dying and asking how God could be doing this to her.
Historians will certainly be dying for access to information like this for people they want to profile, especially in these digital times when written letters are scarce.
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"People are dying at every level of a company to be tapped on the shoulder and asked for their opinion, " says Cooperrider.
In the end, the doctor himself is saved from dying in a sandstorm by what appears to be a miracle his epiphany, it is assumed, will make him a better Muslim.
What seems more likely to me is that Harrigan must be in the pocket of the dying radio industry, and is trying to forward their agenda.
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When Gaita Baikiao finished his doctorate in 1977 at Universitas Urbaniana in Rome, having studied social anthropology among other studies, he came back to Kenya and found that Njurinceke was dying, and the meeting spaces reserved for the elders were about to be alienated by land-grabbers because the organisation had no certificate of registration.
Mozart's body was said to be so swollen in his dying days that he could not even turn over in bed.
The PC world may be dying, but tell that to Lenovo in China.
Clinical trials are under way among pregnant women, who appear to be at heightened risk of dying from the disease.
Writing in the Observer, Mr Cameron said there was a moral reason why action should be taken to prevent children dying from common diseases.
The Chalice workers in Missoula use Gregorian chant partly because it is unmetered and so can be carefully matched to the dying patient's breathing.
With the conspicuous lack of a dying format to explain, this has got to be more optimistic than last year's HD DVD funeral, right?
The BMJ said it backed calls from the campaign group Healthcare Professionals for Assisted Dying (HPAD) which wanted medical bodies to be neutral on the issue.
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