Sentence examples for competent dying from inspiring English sources

As a senator from Missouri, he co-sponsored a bill to give the federal government authority to nullify assisted-suicide laws like Oregon's by punishing doctors who prescribed lethal doses of medicines to competent, dying patients.

Lord Falconer will be introducing a bill which could legalise safeguarded assisted dying in the UK so that competent dying people no longer have to travel abroad to have what they consider to be a good death, or take matters into their own hands behind closed doors.

(While this is true, many competent dying persons still wish to have access to legalized medically assisted death, rather than having to rely on refusing nutrition and hydration, so as to retain control over the timing of their deaths, and to avoid needlessly prolonging the process of dying).

One of the reasons the challengers have given is that there are cases in which killing a competent dying person when she requests assistance with dying, is morally preferable to allowing her to die —, namely, when taking the latter option would serve only to prolong her suffering against her wishes.

The Florida Supreme Court found that he was competent to die, but only by applying a test for mental illness that the Supreme Court has explicitly rejected.

Our experiments suggest that in order for myotubes to undergo apoptosis, they would not only have to release cytochrome c but also overcome the function of XIAP in order to become competent to die.

This may suggest that K562 cells are more competent to die through senescence than necrosis in response to imatinib; a response more convincing when apoptosis is blocked.

The IR-dependent perinuclear accumulation of CED-4 appears strongest in late pachytene cells, which are the only germ cells competent to die by apoptosis.

Sympathetic neurons only become competent to die in response to cytochrome c injection when they have been deprived of NGF for several hours.

Although generally we would advocate earlier discussion about CPR with competent patients, in dying patients, a DNAR decision may be made by the responsible consultant without the competent patient's involvement (Downes and Liddle, 2001).

"A key ingredient of regional cooperation is national militaries that are capable and competent and not dying off because of AIDS," Theresa Whelan, director of the Defense Department's office of Africa policy, said in a telephone interview from Washington.