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A physician may provide a prescription for life-ending medication with the clear purpose and intention of treating the patient's anxiety and improving the quality of life in their final weeks.
Barbara Coombs Lee: The Double Effect of Aid in Dying Barbara Coombs Lee 2011
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A physician may provide a prescription for life-ending medication with the clear purpose and intention of treating the patient's anxiety and improving the quality of life in their final weeks.
Barbara Coombs Lee: The Double Effect of Aid in Dying Barbara Coombs Lee 2011
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When it comes to aid-in-dying providing life-ending medication upon the request of a terminally ill, mentally competent adult evidence suggests most doctors do want that choice for themselves.
Barbara Coombs Lee: Do Doctors Die Like the Rest of Us? Barbara Coombs Lee 2012
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There are plenty of other life-ending cards people are dealt that are just as horrible and way more tragic in the end.
Craig Crawford: Act 5 Craig Crawford 2011
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When it comes to aid-in-dying providing life-ending medication upon the request of a terminally ill, mentally competent adult evidence suggests most doctors do want that choice for themselves.
Barbara Coombs Lee: Do Doctors Die Like the Rest of Us? Barbara Coombs Lee 2012
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Hal Rogers, chair of the House Appropriations Committee, has put forward a plan of life-ending, community destroying cuts -- crowing how they're the biggest in history -- just month after House Republicans insisted it was absolutely essential to cut taxes on millionaires and billionaires.
Matthew Kavanagh: Proposed Spending Cuts Will Sacrifice Lives in Africa Matthew Kavanagh 2011
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This is a life-ending catastrophe, spare no expense to fix it-NOW.
john bennett | the black blood of dinosaurs « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2010
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There are plenty of other life-ending cards people are dealt that are just as horrible and way more tragic in the end.
Craig Crawford: Act 5 Craig Crawford 2011
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Pratchett has said that his idea of a happy suicide would be sitting on a chair on the lawn at his home in Wiltshire, with Thomas Tallis on his iPod, a brandy in one hand and a glass of life-ending chemicals in the other.
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Physicians in Hawaii have already witnessed an emerging standard of care that respects a patient's autonomy and accepts life-ending practices.
Barbara Coombs Lee: Hawaii: The Latest State Where Doctors Can Provide Aid in Dying Barbara Coombs Lee 2011
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