In his words, he is fortunate enough to know he is dying, to take stock of his life as it comes to an end.
"I kept saying that 'Michael is dying, he's dying, he's leaving us, he needs to be put in a hospital, '" Sankey said.
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One of Britain's most celebrated crossword setters has used one of his own puzzles to announce he is dying of cancer.
In his most human film, the 1952 Ikiru, a petty bureaucrat learns he is dying of cancer and resolves to do one good thing: fight for the creation of a city park.
The dynamic is very much--the guy is dying, but he's choosing to see the glory of life at that moment rather than curse it.
Lawyers for Maj Hasan say he has had a premonition that his death is imminent and that he believes dying without a beard would be a sin.
And it is where he was buried after dying on July 6, 1962, at age 64.
"One of them was crying all the way, screaming, 'My friend is dying, '" he said.
"In a free vote on the issue on 7 July, the House of Lords rejected an attempt to decriminalise assisted suicide in circumstances where terminally ill people are helped to travel to countries where assisting dying is lawful, " he said.
"Perhaps having renal dialysis or going blind is worse than dying suddenly, which is quick, cheap and painless, " he said.
He believes that the ghetto genre is dying and that it's time to cover new territory.
He is worried that millions of people are dying unnecessarily because for the world's poorest countries, more money is spent repaying the bills to Western governments and banks than on basic health and education.
In the world of today, he is a research scientist and she is his dying wife.
After all, he is the expert on Samadhi - the art of dying time and again.
He is one of the last of India's dying breed of engaging editors.
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Mr Aspinall, 73, who is dying of cancer of the jaw, added that he had no doubt his friend had been guilty of bludgeoning his children's nanny to death after mistaking her for the wife he plotted to murder.
"President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people, but if Iraqi people are dying in numbers, then American policy will be challenged very strongly, " he said.
"Every year, more than 15, 000 people are dying from this disease, and AIDS is a major killer for some of our minority communities, " he said.
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