Sentences with phrase «to hasten death»

Mr. Anders is well - known for his controversial conservative views in Ottawa, having called Nelson Mandela a terrorist, insulting Canadian veterans, calling for war against Russia, and blaming Thomas Mulcair for hastening the death of former NDP leader Jack Layton.

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.

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.

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.

Either way, there is no question that family backing for suicide furthers the normalization of hastened death as a proper response to human suffering.

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

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

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.

Whether the twins were identical or fraternal didn't have an effect; smoking usually hastened death no matter what amount of genes were shared.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Chip succeeded in preventing his father's hastened death, but at great cost to himself, as he suffered both financial loss and, worse, permanent estrangement from his family.

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.

But if it is indeed true that the lives of PVS persons are of no value to them and it is morally legitimate to withhold or withdraw food and hydration from them in order to relieve them of the burdensomeness of their useless lives, then surely it would be morally legitimate to hasten their deaths, which would undoubtedly be prolonged were they not to be fed or hydrated, by some active means.

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

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

However, other studies have hinted that taking antioxidants may hasten death through an unknown mechanism.

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.

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.

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

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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.

Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous patients with drugs to hasten their deaths.

Had I known I would have adamantly refused to let Shug be treated with it, but I wasn't told until after she had administered a couple of doses and though I made her discontinue it, I feel it hastened her death.

Although the organization said that the beachgoers are not responsible for separating the dolphin from its mother, they hastened its death by putting it in a stressful situation.

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.