Residents should be required to spell out their end of life wishes and emergency instructions and these should be available to those in charge.

FORBES: Nurse Refuses To Give CPR, Senior Dies: Ethical Problem Or Legal Issue?

As he shows, the chances of being hit by a life-altering event (a long spell of unemployment, divorce, a big decline in work hours for one spouse) have declined slightly since the inflation-plagued 1970s and early 1980s.

FORBES: Middle-Class Jitters

Many states also accept other documents such as a form called Five Wishes that allows people to spell out what kind of quality of life they want, and make requests such as having their bodies massaged with oils for comfort.

WSJ: New Efforts to Simplify End-of-Life-Care Wishes

By that stage, he warns, runaway global warming would have become an unstoppable "deadly game of dominoes", ultimately leading to further rises that, based on studies of previous cases of similar climate change in the earth's paleontological history, would spell the near-certain extinction of almost all life on the planet.

CNN: Six degrees of devastation

But this time, the spell is broken by the throbbing life pulse in the "Dance of the Adolescents, " signaling the start of spring.

NPR: Getting Hooked on the 'Rite' Sound

According to the authors of a new study, this will "spell a definite end to life on our planet".

BBC: Blue Marble Nasa

Daimler-Benz, for its part, was under the spell of Mr Schrempp, who had spent the formative periods of his adult life in South Africa and who still goes there to relax.

ECONOMIST: The DaimlerChrysler emulsion