May Murphy, who had a degenerative disease, took a lethal dose of barbiturates to end her life.
He knew that his powers were diminishing he disclosed last year that he was suffering from Parkinson's, a degenerative disease.
Tony Judt who died in 2010, of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a degenerative disease that completely disables the body while leaving the mind intact shares with Rothkopf an insistent disapproval of the current apotheosis of global finance.
In 2009 Mr. Rainwater was diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy, a degenerative neurological disease.
Antonio Tessitore of Villa Literno, Italy, had to give up his job after developing a degenerative muscular disease.
Doctors diagnosed Funicello with multiple sclerosis, a degenerative neurological disease, in 1987.
But aging for most isn't about a rapidly degenerative disease like ALS. Most of us face aging on our 30th, 40th and 50th birthdays -- when we yearn for the carefree days of youth.
The president and the Ravens safeties have mentioned all of this in the context of the semi-recent findings of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a progressive degenerative disease, in the brains of football players both past and present.
McDonald's (nyse: MCD - news - people) will post first-quarter and full-year earnings below Wall Street expectations, largely because mad-cow, a degenerative neurological disease that can infect humans who eat tainted beef, has scared Europeans away from the company's beef.
On Jan. 9, the National Institutes of Health confirmed that the future Hall-of-Fame linebacker, who in May 2012 committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest, suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease that has been connected to other athletes who died way too early after a career taking frequent blows to the head.
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Heart failure is a degenerative, terminal disease affecting more than 20 million patients worldwide and causing more than 7.25 million deaths each year.
Dr Turner, 66, from Bath, had a progressive and incurable degenerative disease called supranuclear palsy.
He next plans to use lab-made tissue and see if he can successfully treat a degenerative, blindness-causing eye disease in monkeys.
This is what Diane Pretty, a British woman with a fatal degenerative condition called motor neurone disease, wants to do, by committing suicide.
"The results of this program will help upper-limb amputees and spinal cord injury patients, as well as those who have lost the ability to use their natural limbs, to have as normal a life as possible despite severe injuries or degenerative neurological disease, " McLoughlin said.
The charity said the survey results painted a deeply disturbing picture about public attitudes towards those living with the degenerative disease.
The vast majority die at a young age, and most are never rescued from the specter of degenerative disease.
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