31.   The court stated that no one should die in pain or suffer for lack of medication even if it has to be given in doses that might hasten death.

32.   The group offers information on how to hasten death to alleviate suffering.

33.   The majority of doctors who granted the requests to hasten death said they had done so only once or twice in their careers.

34.   The problem in interpreting treatment decisions, many say, is that there is a gray zone in intensive care between hastening death and providing care.

35.   The patients, all of whom were terminally ill and have since died, wanted their doctors to prescribe medications that would let them hasten their deaths.

36.   The patients, all of whom were terminally ill and have since died, wanted their doctors to prescribe medications that would allow them to hasten their deaths.

37.   The treatment destroyed their tumors, but also scorched healthy brain tissue, hastening their deaths.

38.   The unanimous ruling by the high court drew a sharp distinction between allowing patients to refuse treatment to hasten their death and permitting doctors to kill their patients.

39.   The treatment destroyed their tumors but also scorched healthy brain tissue, hastening their deaths.

40.   They can hasten death.