In More's ideal society, government officials and priests visit suffering invalids and say, "Why don't you break out and escape to a better world?" In Belgium, euthanasia is embraced as an emblem of enlightenment and progress, a sign that the country has extricated itself from its Catholic, patriarchal roots.
Returning to Kelmscott House, he became a complete invalid, being visited by friends and family, before dying of tuberculosis on the morning of 4 October 1896.
Shortly before Russia's defence minister visited Tehran last December, the Russian government declared invalid a previous secret undertaking, given to America, that it would suspend arms sales to Iran.
Investigators visited properties claimed as damaged and checked to see if the applicants had submitted multiple claims, or invalid or false Social Security numbers.
Protestations that it's 'voyeuristic' are invalid as long as you visit with a company such as Cape Capers (00 27211 448 3117), from £26, led by amiable Faizal Gangat, where you know the money is going back to the local community.
The Sundance Film Festival in the snowy, condo-choked valleys of the Wasatch Range had seen so much of its excitement fade away in recent years that many people approached this 20th gathering as a kind of visit with an invalid.
Some months later she makes an impulsive detour to visit him, arriving on the day of his invalid wife's funeral, when he has already left to spend the night with his mistress.
Relatives visit often, coming to pay attention to 'the invalid' and to divert him.
The woman, a 35-year-old from West Virginia, told a local lawyer, Gary Gramer, on Monday that she had been visiting Mastic Beach when a police officer stopped her for driving with an invalid inspection sticker.
Algernon confesses a similar deception: he pretends to have an invalid friend named Bunbury in the country, whom he can "visit" whenever he wishes to avoid an unwelcome social obligation.
