Terminally ill cannot postpone their deaths
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Many of us think that the terminally ill can postpone their deaths so that they can see a relative, experience their last birthday or enjoy a special holiday - sadly, this is a myth, according to a new study.
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The parents of a  baby at the centre of a right-to-life battle claim doctors are trying to hasten her death.
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A terminal leukemia patient must have daily blood transfusions or die. A family begs doctors to do everything possible to keep their elderly mother alive. Parents cannot accept their newborn baby will not survive.
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Everyone should be an organ donor when they die unless they have asked not to be, says the chief medical officer.
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There is no truth in the belief that cancer patients can delay their death for important events, a study suggests.
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Parents regret not discussing death with their children who are terminally ill, a survey shows. Many who could not bring themselves to raise the issue later wished they had, Swedish researchers from the Karolinska Institute found.
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The Bush administration has appealed to US Supreme Court in an effort to block an Oregon law allowing doctors to help the terminally ill end their lives.
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Conventional wisdom suggests that dying patients will cling to life if a holiday, such as Christmas, a birthday or a cherished anniversary is near.
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Concerns that legalised assisted death would be used to kill vulnerable people have not played out, a study says.
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New research attempts to help parents sift through one of the most difficult decisions they will ever have to make: Whether to tell their terminally ill child that he or she is dying.
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Euthanasia proponent Dr. Jack  Kevorkian, dubbed &quot;Dr. Death&quot; for assisting in some 130  suicides, vowed on Sunday he will no longer help people end  their lives, even if they come to him in desperation.
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A hospital in the Netherlands â-he first nation to permit euthanasia â - proposed guidelines for mercy killings of terminally ill newborns and then made a startling revelation
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Families of cancer patients may feel that regardless of medical opinion, the patient can will themselves to make it through Christmas.
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The Supreme Court refused Monday to review a ruling that terminally ill patients have no constitutional right to be treated with experimental drugs Â even if that means the patient will likely die before the medicine is approved.
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An Indian court&#39;s refusal to allow a terminally-ill patient to donate his organs has triggered a legal debate. Venkatesh, 25, has a genetic neurological disorder and wants his life support system turned off before his organs suffer irreparable damage.
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Parents regret not discussing death with their children who are terminally ill, a survey shows.
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A 30-year-old terminally-ill British woman launched a legal bid to force her doctors to let her die, in the latest battle against the law banning euthanasia.