1.   An angry, depressed, unstable, perhaps mentally ill person picks up a gun because it has become a known alternative.

2.   An ill person consults a shaman - a crystal gazer, star gazer or hand trembler - to learn how the balance has been upset.

3.   And even if a test medication improves the health of a chronically ill person, the drugs will no longer be supplied once the study ends.

4.   And one of the strongest predictors of whether a mentally ill person will be violent is whether he has been violent before.

5.   And study results should help dispel the stereotype of the mentally ill person who attacks people on the street at random.

6.   Bradford said a traditional police response to a psychologically ill person with a weapon may not be the best way to handle such an instance.

7.   Buying an investment that will pay off only when a terminally ill person dies has a certain morbid quality, but individuals have been doing it for several years.

8.   He had been stabbed in the neck with a scalpel by a mentally ill person, and decided it was time to return home.

9.   LEGISLATION PASSED Would create a pilot program in which the courts could compel hospitalization of a mentally ill person who fails to take medication or undergo counseling.

10.   Now, will it also allow surrogates to decide that a terminally ill person should be given a lethal dose of medication?