Sentence examples for life termination from inspiring English sources

Such specific, genetically controlled senescence processes are instances of programmed life termination.

"What does exist is a living will (the levenswensverklaring), which is distributed by the Christian Dutch Patient Association," in which people can "state that active life termination is not an acceptable option".

(The question of abortion rests on a single issue: is it O.K. to destroy a potential life? Termination involves an infinite number of heartbreaking queries that boil down to this: what about this life in particular?) Some argue that our desire not to raise impaired children is based on prejudice.

Second, irrespective of classifying a constitutive treatment of VS or CS as either a replacement or substitution of body function, circumstantial assessment of the request, causation, intention, and moral responsibility of life termination seriously restricts the ethical permissibility of discontinuing such a treatment.

A Dutch doctor is also obliged to exercise due care in the determination of the necessity of life-termination by consulting with colleagues and the patient's family.

Results: Patients reported significant improvement in clinical symptoms and quality of life at termination.

Mr. Sullivan even described how Mr. Pinto suggested that Mr. Ganim lose the Hartford Life policy termination form that Mr. Sullivan had brought with him in a pile of papers on the mayor's desk.

Ingestion of ethanol was begun 4 weeks prior to inhalation of VC and continued for life or termination of the study at two and one-half years from the first VC exposure.

If confirmed, it would expand the sensitive time period during which disruption of molecular mechanisms of alveolar development is of special concern, from the first few years of life until termination of longitudinal growth.

In November, a woman in the Republic of Ireland died after being refused a potentially life-saving termination.

The inquest into her death is ongoing, but Savita's husband and family are adamant that she would be alive had the doctors not insisted that, because there was still a fetal heartbeat, a life-saving termination couldn't be performed.