For most pet owners a good death means painless euthanasia in either a veterinary surgery or at home.
It's because of this that we should all keep constantly in mind that we cannot hope to understand how to have a good life, unless we also ready ourselves for a good death.
David Foster Wallace is having a good death.
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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.
Since when were the Little Ice Age and the Black Death the Good Old Days?
He and Ruth Werner remained good friends until his death in 1988, aged 76.
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The quality care of the elderly as they approach their death could very good with fewer procedures and a much lower cost.
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The mother of an 18-year-old who was killed in a road crash in Aberdeenshire has said she hopes some good will come of his death.
Gurney about a politician who stops by his New England prep school alma mater to give a commencement speech, and learns he may have inadvertently contributed to the death of a good friend.
People on staff who initially hoped some good would come from the death by way of awareness were disheartened when the anniversary came and went and discussion of Yeardley Love was still off limits.
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Her passing was truly an Easter death - poised between Good Friday and Easter Day.
Under the law of the state of Ohio, spousal support payments terminate on death, which is good enough to preserve alimony treatment.
Good team communication is life or death for patients.
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Pilot Air Freight, the company which carried the unusual cargo, pointed out that, apart from anything else, Mr McKinley had narrowly escaped death by having the good fortune to fly in pressurised, heated cabins.
But Dr David Oliver, a consultant in palliative care at a hospice in Kent, told the Five Live programme that the majority of people with motor neurone disease are able to die a peaceful death if they have good palliative care.
In December Pfizer stopped testing its experimental good-cholesterol drug, torcetrapib, after it boosted the death rate in a 15, 000-patient trial--even though it raised good cholesterol by 60% in past studies.
Alas, the good news is the tax-to-death wealthy are going to invest their money in the stock market this year.
Actress Penelope Keith, who played the snobbish neighbour Margo to Briers' character Tom in The Good Life, said the actor's death was "an enormous loss".
Media in China mourn the death of Venezuelan leader and "good friend" Hugo Chavez and believe an opposition victory will not derail ties.
But, ultimately, death comes, and no one is good at knowing when to stop.
Some death penalty supporters say that may be a good thing in the short term.
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For these countries, globalisation is a good thing, but hardly a matter of life or death.
Jobs' philosophy on death was that it may ultimately be a good thing: "Nature's change agent, " he called it.
Once, wrongful convictions because of lawyer error stood a good chance of being overturned on appeal, especially in death-penalty cases.
Although they cannot draw more than the maximum amount - which is approximately equal to a good health annuity - there is more flexibility over the death benefits.
Academia has maintained a death grip on this area for decades and for good reason.
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If not for his death by propofol, Jackson's health appeared good enough for him to live a normal lifespan, Rogers testified.
At the time, he felt he had dodged the bullet, having received a good prognosis on his pancreatic cancer, but acknowledged that facing death directly made him all the more determined to get the most out of life.
We saw that most vividly with torceptrapib, the Pfizer drug that raised the good cholesterol, lowered the bad cholesterol and increased the risk of death.
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