Sometimes it's a lead character, and sometimes several characters end up being wiped out, one by one, by a smorgasbord of terminal medical complaints.
Aggressive medical intervention in terminal cases is increasingly considered an avoidable cruelty, inflicted on a suffering patient by someone -- occasionally a doctor, but more often a family member -- unable to acknowledge the inevitable.
Indeed, a review of a decade of medical literature on terminal sedation and interviews with palliative care doctors suggest that there is less than unanimity on which drugs are appropriate to use or even on the precise definition of terminal sedation.
Besides the two candidates, who are out to destroy each other, there is a departing president (Mr. Durning), who makes a case for the honorability of lying to the electorate, be it about his terminal medical diagnosis or the fact that he does not believe in God.
The two also exchanged emails in the lead up to Brayley's suicide, in which the 45-year-old Perth man admitted, "I don't honestly fit neatly under Exit's charter of supporting a terminal medical illness", but said he was "suffering and have been now for some nine months now".
For example, situations like natural disasters, crime, self-harm, medical conditions and terminal illnesses.
A couple adopts more than 20 children, many of them from impoverished backgrounds or suffering from terminal medical conditions, because they believe that's what God wants.
It also contains a major flaw in that it requires physicians to acquire medical marijuana for terminal patients, exposing the physicians to potential criminal sanctions and/or loss of licensure.
The idea that God decreed, for any reason, that my brother and over a million other Jewish children should be brutally murdered by the Nazis in gas chambers, terminal medical experiments, typhus epidemics, and through deliberate starvation is a theological abomination in and of itself.
Our survey showed that for the studied medical ethics experts terminal sedation involves considerable moral uncertainties.
