Sentences with phrase «hastened death»

We now know that Rodriguez was wrongly decided; and that the majority decision sustains unnecessary suffering and promoted hastened death.

These cases established that a breach of Article 3 (sending an applicant to a real risk of torture or inhuman and degrading treatment) would only be found in the most exceptional circumstances, namely where there were compelling humanitarian considerations such as an applicant being critically ill and facing mental and physical suffering and hastened death upon removal.

The employee, G, a consultant anaesthetist, was alleged to have inappropriately hastened the death of patients in his care.

In hindsight, this tumultuous period — of hedonism and racial tensions, excess and fear, progress and resistance — hastened the death throes of a country on the brink of financial disaster and of a world on the brink of war.

With a total of one hundred rooms, there is plenty of space for small or Documentaries dealing with Advanced directives, Death with dignity, Dying with dignity, Euthanasia, Hastened death, Health surrogates, Hospice, Legislation

World War I brought him deep agony of soul and is said to have hastened his death.

The ambient hostility drove some of his best students out of the profession and may have worsened the eating disorder that hastened his death.

They want doctors to do a better job of recognizing and treating depression in the terminally ill, and of understanding the ambivalence that so often stands behind a call for hastened death.

The abandoning ethic of assisted suicide is demonstrated by studies showing depression in many patients requesting hastened death.

The good news is that while loneliness will hasten your death, you don't need to take drastic action to reverse the effects of isolation.

Its drug Niraparib kills cancer cells by inhibiting the production of proteins called PARPs, which help repair damaged DNA strands, thereby hastening the death of some types of cancer cells.

In the case at hand, Judge Miner and his colleagues determined that the relevant class was «all competent persons who are in the final stages of fatal illness and wish to hasten their deaths.»

Under New York law, patients may legally refuse treatment and authorize the withdrawal of life - support systems, including nutrition, even in those instances where such steps would undoubtedly hasten death.

You will want to choose your doctors carefully, particularly with respect to their attitudes toward suicide and the use of the medical profession in hastening death.

To ban assisted suicide, however, means that some members of the class, i.e., those who wish to hasten their deaths with the help of their physicians, are being treated differently.

That horrible case in San Luis Obispo, in which Dr. Hootan Roozrokh, an organ transplant surgeon is accused of attempting to hasten the death of Ruben Navarro, a dependent adult to harvest his organs, is going to trial.

We should «never abandon care» — and such abandonment can come either through hastening death, or through struggling daily against death when its time has come, a struggle that will deflect us from giving the care really needed at that point.

With respect to their attitudes, of the 319 doctors who responded, 89 \ % consider it ethical to withhold ANH from PVS patients; 65 \ % consider it ethical to transplant vital organs from PVS patients; and 20 \ % consider it ethical to administer lethal injections to hasten the death of such patients.

For a church heaving its last breaths, side deals hasten death.

At that time, there was a consensus among the medical and nursing professions that it was wrong to cause or hasten death, and we knew the difference between ordinary and extraordinary treatment decisions.

Sen. Diane Savino, who along with Sen. Brad Hoylman (D - Manhattan) is set to introduce the «Death with Dignity Act,» wondered what the difference was between stopping treatment to hasten death like Dolan says is okay and a terminally ill person taking a prescribed lethal medicine to end one's life.

«The act of deliberately hastening death is not supported by most religions.

As in the Netherlands, only about 40 per cent of the «extra» deaths during heat waves in the US were inevitable but heat - hastened deaths.

It is not yet clear, however, exactly how worn wings hastens death.

Doctors often prescribe these patients medications often used in patients with mental health disorders, despite little hard evidence that they work well and despite the risks they can pose — including hastening death.

HCMV is a common virus that can cause birth defects such as deafness and brain damage and can hasten the death of adults who have received organ implants, who are infected with the HIV virus or whose immune systems otherwise have been weakened.

Drugs aimed at quelling the behavior problems of dementia patients may also hasten their deaths more than previously realized, a new U-M study finds.

Not to be confused with starvation, which increases metabolism and therefore hastens death, caloric restriction involves controlled limited calorie intake.

What evidence there is, suggests they don't work and may actually hasten death.

«In test tubes, pomegranate extracts made from juice, rind, and oil slow down the reproduction of cancer cells and may hasten their death.

THIS BOOK RECOUNTS what happened at Memorial Medical Center during and after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and follows events through the aftermath of the crisis, when medical professionals were arrested and accused of having hastened the deaths of their patients.

Shocking as it was, Nerissa probably thought she was just hastening a death that would happen anyway, and sparing Placidia the further anguish of having to witness the child's suffering, its failure to thrive or recover from the flood.

Did their doctors hasten their deaths, or end their misery?

The shelter has been vaccinating cats since discovering the problem, even though the vaccine hastens the death of cats that are already infected.

Rather than hastening the death of painting as Rodchenko forecast, monochromatic painting has already enjoyed a long life line and, in the hands of Donald Martiny, is clearly alive and well.

This leaves precious little time for the Federal government to craft meaningful legislation that follows the guidelines set out by the Supreme Court which would permit hastening death on behalf of mentally competent patients facing a «grievous and irremediable medical condition».

Within the challenge, the BCCLA is seeking to give seriously and incurably ill, mentally competent adults the right to receive medical assistance to hasten death under certain specific safeguards.

Not exact matches

And he most recently suggested that former NDP leader Jack Layton «s death was hastened by now - leader Thomas Mulcair.

bin Laden has said, «We worship death,» and the ruling regime of Iran wishes to fulfill an eschatological vision to hasten the arrival of the 12th Imam via the use of nuclear arms.

If so does that mean he hastened or participated in his own death?

Keep it there, and use it as a means of hastening the inevitable death of religion.

Its critics say that it is a way of hastening patients» deaths: and the evidence really does seem to be that this is often the case.

Savulescu takes the approach further, prescribing specific techniques by which death may be hastened by physicians so that they can procure the optimal number of viable organs.

More importantly, they describe the existential factors that lead some to seek hastening of death.

It has been said that she hastened her own death by bringing on a fit of seizures while arguing the merits of skim milk because it was cheaper than whole milk.»

This æon is held in bondage by Satan, sin, and death (for «powers» is precisely what they are), and hastens towards its end.

His death on November 11, 1947, at the age of sixty - four, was undoubtedly hastened by the illness and privations caused by the war.

Foreseeing the approach of death in days rather than weeks, here is how they spent their last sleepless leisure, sitting up against the wall: Timofeyev - Ressovsky gathered them into a «seminar,» and they hastened to share with one another what one of them knew and the others did not — they delivered their last lectures to each other.

The mysterious Mrs. Sammile, a kind of Prim Reaper, tries to hasten everyone to a cozy death.

In context, I think it is an encouragement for believers to dive from airplanes and not open their parachutes, hastening their own deaths and meeting the sky fairy in which they have so much faith.