Some patients fear that their lives may be prolonged unnecessarily or end in unbearable distress.
This fed into debates about whether patient's lives were being prolonged unnecessarily as a result of anticoagulation.
USA, African-American [ 15] Juxtaposed with the notion that organs are removed prematurely was the belief that doctors prolong life unnecessarily to obtain organs.
Our data show that the public wants death and dying to remain important, care to involve a human touch and unnecessary aggressive treatments that prolong life unnecessarily to stop.
This judgement heaps further suffering upon the original unpleasantness of how I was feeling, and often prolongs it unnecessarily.
It would certainly cost us untold millions of dollars and thousands upon thousands of lives, and by it we would prolong the war unnecessarily.
Rather, they asserted that governments that tried to cut their budget deficits too much and too fast in the middle of a deep recession would unnecessarily prolong and exacerbate the downturn.
There was no evidence of complicity between the combatants to unnecessarily prolong the agony beyond what were two of the most peace-riddled rounds in the history of the sport, outside mutual recognition of an obvious gulf in their commitment to battle.
The presidents of the European council, commission and parliament – Donald Tusk, Jean-Claude Juncker and Martin Schulz respectively – and Mark Rutte, the prime minister of the Netherlands which holds the EU's rotating presidency, said any delay to Britain's exit would "unnecessarily prolong uncertainty".
Bush aides said they were convinced that television viewers' glimpses of the process would lead them to share the Bush campaign's belief, along with its assertions that any extensive manual recount would unnecessarily prolong and complicate a resolution in the presidential race.
However, we never prolong this process unnecessarily and we always return to programme-makers with a prompt decision". A spokesman for B7 Productions, the company developing the Blake's 7 revival, said: "Sky's deciding to not proceed with the planned TV revival of Blake's 7 is obviously disappointing, but the development process has resulted in the dynamic reinvention of this 'branded' series..
