ARTHUR A. FLEISHER II Northridge, Calif., June 6, 2011 The writer is a retired obstetrician-gynecologist. To the Editor: Re "A Polarizing Figure in End-of-Life Decisions" (news analysis, June 5): The passing of Dr. Jack Kevorkian has triggered regret and compassion for a man whom I long viewed as the antithesis to my own personal feelings on the value of life.
It's a stripped-to-the-bone audit of love, loss and regret, triggered by the 2012 death of Stevens's mother, a volatile free spirit with a glancing but lasting impact on his life.
Other candidates for testing are incentives that trigger avoidance of anticipated regret, and rewards with lottery-like characteristics, which have been effective in the presence of self-control problems in other contexts (Volpp et al. [2008]).
Hence, the results clearly showed that future missed opportunities triggered more feelings of regret.
This has in a sense of a "no regret policy" triggered substantial activity worldwide to decrease emission of greenhouse gases, especially of CO2, and various attempts have been made to set binding limits for the emission of these gases.
My anxiety triggered immense feelings of regret and fear.
Group participation may have triggered feelings of anticipated regret, i.e. regret that women think they would have if they were to be diagnosed with breast cancer after not (yet) having chosen the option of prophylactic mastectomy [ 47].
Regret's death triggers discord among the races of the Covenant, leading to the Hierarchs giving the Brutes the Elites' traditional job of protecting them in the wake of the death.
Some were upset it only featured African-American men talking about their regrets of pulling a trigger.
Signs of distress can be felt, seen or heard, and frequently trigger fast automatic reactions that we might regret.
Only once do we feel ourselves teetering on the edge of something profound, when a convicted killer regrets the ease of pulling the trigger on her girlfriend.
