The problem is that they may not develop diffuse mesothelioma until years, even decades later, but once diagnosed, the condition is terminal.

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Almost all these patients had known, for some time, that they had a terminal condition.

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Florida's statute-suggested living will, for example, directs life-prolonging treatments to be stopped if there is "no reasonable medical probability" of recovery from a terminal condition or persistent vegetative state.

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Rather, the voters were fed-up after decades of increasingly feckless and aimless LDP rule, of which the succession of one-year or less failed LDP prime ministers and cabinets was judged a terminal condition.

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Did he have some terminal condition?

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He was born with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, a terminal genetic condition in which persistent skin problems lead to crippling deformities and, eventually, skin cancer.

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Ms MacDonald's bill would allow people whose lives became intolerable through a progressive degenerative condition, a trauma or terminal illness to seek a doctor's help in dying.

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