21.   There are salty soap operas featuring sensitive mariners drawn to the high seas to heal marital heartbreak or cope with terminal disease.

22.   As medical therapies extended the life expectancies of AIDS patients, viatical settlement firms began to broker policies for people with cancer or other terminal diseases.

23.   He says HIV was still a terminal disease but with better treatment, it could sometimes be turned into a chronic illness.

24.   His terminal disease means he will likely never face trial.

25.   Some interest groups have protested AIDS funding, saying that other terminal diseases such as cancer should get more of the money.

26.   Thanu acknowledges that some problems have no solution -- terminal disease, for example -- and that, in these cases, acceptance is the only viable response.

27.   The Hagens were frail and had normal ailments for their age but did not suffer from a specific terminal disease, prosecutors said.

28.   Andrea had suffered from a terminal lymphatic disease that caused her unbearable pain, and became increasingly obsessed with suicide.