21.   A stepbrother of Gonzalez ended his life in such a place nearly three years ago.

22.   A teen-age girl begged her mother to end her life before the Americans could, he says.

23.   About coming so close but deciding to end life, not nurture it.

24.   Advocates of physician-assisted suicide say the terminally ill should not be denied the right to end their life with the help of doctors.

25.   After contemplating several rural sites for ending his life, the artist hanged himself in his Connecticut studio.

26.   But Aroner cited polls showing that about two of three Americans believe terminally ill adults should be able to ask a physician for medication to end their lives.

27.   But both are convinced that he deliberately sought to end his life at KU Med Center.

28.   But all states have laws on the books, or traditions in common law, making it a crime for someone to help people end their lives.

29.   But even in a state where such assistance is legal, doctors are rarely willing to let anyone know they have helped to end a life.

30.   But last week, when he helped a Massachusetts cancer patient end his life, Kevorkian seemed a diminished figure.