11.   Ezra Davis believes the California Department of Corrections is hastening the death of prisoners with AIDS.

12.   For example, the most common situation the nurses revealed was giving pain-relieving narcotics to patients, knowing that the drugs might hasten death.

13.   Fyock says she has seen anecdotal evidence that retiring without ambitions for additional work or other productive activities may actually hasten death.

14.   General internists, geriatricians, and lung specialists were most likely to say they had hastened death.

15.   Having watched his mother die peacefully four years ago of emphysema and congestive heart failure, he cannot fathom her choosing to hasten her death.

16.   He contended it might slow her breathing and hasten her death.

17.   He also suggested that her primary doctor, Charles Kivowitz, had hastened her death with morphine.

18.   He ruled out disease but said high temperatures might have hastened the deaths.

19.   In any event, physicians have little incentive to hasten death, she said.

20.   Many include decisions to stop treatment or to use painkillers that may hasten death as cases of euthanasia.