Sentence examples for delay death from inspiring English sources

Another issue raised in the debate is that increased longevity and medical advances can delay death.

Mr. Scheidegger said the authority some governors had to commute or delay death penalty sentences "is given for the purpose of correcting injustices in individual cases.

This includes interventions necessary to delay death, such as chemotherapy and kidney dialysis, as well as treatments needed to make life more bearable, such as psychotherapy for depression and analgesics for acute pain.

Criticizing Changes Some patient advocates — mostly from older, more established organizations — bemoan these changes because even if a drug shrinks tumors, it may do nothing to delay death or improve patients' last days.

Even with advanced cancer, when death may be most predictable, doctors are often wrong either because the disease follows an unexpected course or because doctors are reluctant to acknowledge their inability to delay death.

The theologians often split along religious lines, with Christians saying that to delay death was to delay union with God, and a Jew, Rabbi Neil Gilman of the Jewish Theological Center, declaring that everything possible to prolong life must be done.

There was one delayed death in this patient cohort because of a presumed pulmonary embolus.

The only difference is his is a delayed death, very traumatizing.

Until now, ageing research has focused mainly on single diseases, or on delaying death.

For instance, the drug administration initially rejected oxaliplatin because no trial at the time proved that it delayed death.

Shifman, M. I., Zhang, G. & Selzer, M. E., Delayed death of identified reticulospinal neurons after spinal cord injury in lampreys.