1.   Adding the copper, which is another metal toxin, only hastened the death of the fish.

2.   But, analytically, a right to die is not dissimilar from a right to hasten death by terminating life-sustaining medical treatment.

3.   His death was hastened by alcohol abuse.

4.   And the neurological problems, in turn, hasten death.

5.   A prosecutor in Cleveland has accused a nationally renowned medical center there of seeking to hasten the deaths of terminally ill patients to obtain their organs for transplant.

6.   A terrible misunderstanding made them twin victims of a medication error that probably hastened their deaths and certainly heaped misery upon their last days.

7.   But physicians may relieve the pain of the dying even if such medication hastens death.

8.   But the years of conflict also hastened the death of many of its traditions.

9.   But would the drugs have hastened the deaths of patients?

10.   C.R. Bard Inc. suffered after a medical report suggested a popular medical device used to evaluate the heart could actually hasten the death of critically ill patients.