Today many doctors order pain medicines for dying patients to be given before suffering takes hold.

VOA: special.2009.02.10

As he was dying of tuberculosis at the age of 39, he asked that his heart be removed and taken back to his homeland.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

Now with widespread allegations of vote-rigging, the British government is having to justify why British service personnel are dying for what appears to be a far from democratic election.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

"One of the things that this study actually allows us to do, is to begin to get a sense as to how much of the burden of infection is an added burden on a patient who is already at risk of dying because of the underlying diseases that led them to be in the intensive care unit,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.08