41.   They challenged the law only insofar as it bans physician-assisted suicide for mentally competent, terminally ill adults who knowingly and voluntarily choose to hasten their deaths.

42.   Under the decision, a physician could prescribe drugs that would hasten the death of a terminally ill patient if the patient were mentally competent and requested such help.

43.   With assisted suicide, however, death is hastened by the taking of a lethal drug or other agent...

44.   A Japanese family filed a complaint with prosecutors Wednesday accusing three doctors of hastening the death of a family member so they could transplant his kidneys.

45.   As recently as last year, a family accused three doctors of hastening the death of a relative so his kidneys could be used for transplant.

46.   As recently as last year, a Japanese family accused three doctors of hastening the death of a relative so his kidneys could be used for transplant.

47.   But he has decided that at least for now he can no longer help terminally ill people hasten their deaths.

48.   He said police rules forbid such transportation if it is likely to hasten the death of a victim.

49.   The strenuous police interrogation may have further weakened his condition and hastened his death, Gombwa said.

50.   Their deaths are hastened by malnutrition, weakened immune systems and the fact that their families cannot afford or obtain lifesaving medicines.