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The most plausible and defensible version of the principle of double effect requires that the harmful side effect be minimized, so the principle of double effect provides no justification for withholding hydration and nutrition in cases in which death is not immediately imminent.
Death does not always ensue shortly after withholding or withdrawal of treatment; patients whose death is not immediately imminent should be transferred to suitable hospices.
This observation suggests the need for transfering patients whose death is not immediately imminent after limitation of treatment, to a suitable hospice, to administer appropriate palliative care.
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Hawke also warned that if climate change was not immediately addressed it would result in the imminent and "total destruction of mankind on this planet".
Answers that are on the tip-of-the-tongue (TOT)—not immediately recallable but nevertheless evoking a feeling of imminent recall seem, intuitively, to be materials that have this characteristic of being almost, but not quite, fully known.
Do not immediately turn your back on danger or underplay clear, and imminent danger.
(If death is immediately imminent, then the absence of hydration and nutrition may not affect the time of death).
There was a huge outcry when Google announced the imminent death of Reader — petitions, blogs, the works — but you might not immediately understand why.
Settlers warned of political action to bring down Mr. Sharon's government, but far-right parties did not immediately bolt from his governing coalition, an indication that they did not consider action against settlements to be imminent or inevitable.
Glavine's agent, Gregg Clifton, did not immediately return a message left on his cellphone, but he told ESPN.com that a one-year deal with Atlanta was imminent.
In fact, the authorities did not immediately read Mr Tsarnaev his rights, in a legal manoeuvre reserved for occasions where a detainee might have knowledge of an imminent threat to public safety.
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