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My mother had just joined the society, and someone in their Texas headquarters had suggested she approach Dr. Harmon to see if she was a good candidate for “self-deliverance,” as Humphry calls it, and, if so, to request a prescription for Seconal.
imperfect endings Zoe FitzGerald Carter 2010
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Follow-up interviews and discussions reveal that this method of self-deliverance may be less traumatizing for family members than more rapid-acting methods, such as the ingestion of drugs.
imperfect endings Zoe FitzGerald Carter 2010
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Follow-up interviews and discussions reveal that this method of self-deliverance may be less traumatizing for family members than more rapid-acting methods, such as the ingestion of drugs.
imperfect endings Zoe FitzGerald Carter 2010
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"We offer guidance and the most current information known for self-deliverance when the person is ready to choose," according to the network's website.
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Unlike other methods of self-deliverance, cessation of food and water allows the family members to be with the dying person, while they are dying, and to experience their commitment to death over time .
imperfect endings Zoe FitzGerald Carter 2010
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Unlike other methods of self-deliverance, cessation of food and water allows the family members to be with the dying person, while they are dying, and to experience their commitment to death over time .
imperfect endings Zoe FitzGerald Carter 2010
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My mother had just joined the society, and someone in their Texas headquarters had suggested she approach Dr. Harmon to see if she was a good candidate for “self-deliverance,” as Humphry calls it, and, if so, to request a prescription for Seconal.
imperfect endings Zoe FitzGerald Carter 2010
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And he would exist solely in the interstices between self-deliverance and immutable stillness.
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Rabbi Posner will discuss the ideas of assisted-suicide and self-deliverance from a religious point of view, both Jewish and Christian.
Panel Discussion in Ajijic on Suicide and Self-deliverance. 2004
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Buddhism proclaims is a message of undeniable, if most imperfect, truth: the truth that would have man cultivate self-reliance, and attain to self-deliverance by means of self-control.
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