The much-praised hospice movement may now be asked to help patients decide not how to die but when to die.
Of those supporting a change in the law, 82% agreed that an "individual has the right to choose when and how to die".
In the past few decades, medical science has rendered obsolete centuries of experience, tradition, and language about our mortality, and created a new difficulty for mankind: how to die.
Yet Mr Peel always seemed too young to be considering how he would like to die.
When an entity shifts focus from how to change and grow to how to avoid loss, at that moment it begins to die.
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People forget how many kids used to die young from vaccine preventable diseases.
Most meet their end in traps, which must comply with international humane standards, based on "time to death"--how long it takes an animal to die.
One time I was soaking the whole way through and my maw was completely angry, how I was going to die of pneumonia or else diptheria if ye swallowed the water.
The true extent of how many people are helped to die is far from clear.
Mortality rates are calculated by examining how many people would be expected to die, taking into account age and disease profile of the local population.
It is work to die, to know how to approach and endure life's last moments.
What we do know so far is that an autopsy is being carried out and that the U.S. military hopes that at least tomorrow we'll be able to know exactly how he really did die.
He told me how people die because they simply have nothing to eat or drink.
The find runs counter to existing theories of how stars evolve and die.
Up to half of hospitalized patients with MRSA die with it, although it is hard to parse out how many of the deaths are due to the infection and how many are due to the underlying illnesses that put them in the hospital in the first place.
It should anger us that most of these 19, 000 children die daily from causes we know how to prevent.
More people will live and die thinking of almost nothing but how to accomplish this goal than will ever read the words we are writing right now.
Ms. Hart, who steered the group's campaign as a volunteer, says she had to explain to the girls how a bill with so much support could die so quietly.
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Good estate planning attorneys know how to prepare for contingencies, no matter what the law will say when you die.
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Determine how much income your partner needs to maintain his or her standard of living if you die tomorrow.
No-one knows how many people die of deep vein thrombosis a year but some scientists argue up to 10% of cases could be flight-related.
In a statement the family described how Sowden had broken into Mr Rooney's flat, beaten him and left him to die.
Chatter about Facebook's demise never seems to die down, whether it's talk of "Facebook fatigue, " or grousing about how the social network lost its cool once grandma joined.
From a viewing area above the dig, guides explain how scientists discovered the vast bone beds, the remains of animals who fell into the cave or wandered in to die.
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"Think back to May 2006 when India spun into the toilet and imagine how well you would have done by calmly buying good companies on the dips and waiting for the panic attack to die down, " says John Christy, editor of the Forbes International Investment Report.
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