11.   Any second now the bullet would arrive, ending his life.

12.   As cancer doctors, both Burdick and Back said they have been asked by terminally ill patients to assist them in ending their lives.

13.   As he packs away plaques and proposals by the boxful, Rep. Pat Williams ends a life in politics with wonder at the money of it all.

14.   As science fiction becomes established medical science, more people are taking the decision about prolonging or ending their lives into their own hands.

15.   Bastable ended his life with his wife at his side, Hofsess said.

16.   Before the law was overturned, Nitschke helped four terminally ill people end their lives.

17.   A final shot to the head ended his life.

18.   A gunshot during a botched robbery ended the life of a young surgeon on a Manhattan street, and the city recoiled from the senseless waste.

19.   A patient has the right to stop life support, to ask for aggressive pain treatment which may have the double effect of ending life.

20.   A rogue asteroid, hurtling out of control, threatens to end life as we know it.