Sentence examples for defer death from inspiring English sources

Without any immediate prospect of a cure, advocacy groups have begun promoting ways to offer people with dementia a comfortable decline instead of imposing on them a medical model of care, which seeks to defer death through escalating interventions.

By Rebecca Mead Beatitudes aims at offering dementia patients — "people who have trouble thinking" — a comfortable decline instead of imposing a medical model of care, which seeks to defer death through escalating interventions.

And at the fringes of their family tableau are the others: Jacob's grandfather Isaac, the novel's silent presence, planning to defer death until after Sam's bar mitzvah; Jacob's parents, Irv and Deborah, she the smoother-over, he pyrotechnically outspoken; and "the Israeli cousins", about to arrive for the latest in a succession of tensely affectionate visits.

Suicide is a rational option, the more so when hospitalisation can only defer death briefly at great physical and financial cost.

It wasn't until Liu heard "guilty, deferred death sentence" that the reality sank in.

In order to find one further deferred death one needs to observe 100 cases again, which is represented by a NNO of 100.

It is also possible that better-off HIV positive children are more likely to survive beyond infancy, reducing the association between socio-economic status and AIDS deaths in the infant age group, and magnifying it in the 1 4 year olds from the deferred deaths.

But if liability could be deferred until death, then this group would effectively be on a par with the lottery winners they resemble, who aren't taxed on their windfalls but on the fortunes they eventually bequeath.

While some asset-rich, income-poor pensioners might face difficulties with increased bills, at a local level councils could defer payment until death or sale.

Although the primary diagnosis may not be disputed, a social context that emphasizes mere and unlikely survival over palliative care is likely to provide maximal technological support and defer the moment of death.

For all 16 patients, death certificates were initially filed with cause of death deferred.