Dr Turner, 66, from Bath, had a progressive and incurable degenerative disease called supranuclear palsy.
May Murphy, who had a degenerative disease, took a lethal dose of barbiturates to end her life.
The vast majority die at a young age, and most are never rescued from the specter of degenerative disease.
He knew that his powers were diminishing he disclosed last year that he was suffering from Parkinson's, a degenerative disease.
The charity said the survey results painted a deeply disturbing picture about public attitudes towards those living with the 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.
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.
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.
Her husband Ronald, who was the American leader between 1981 and 1989, also suffers from the degenerative brain disease.
The latter of these three had seen him catch an infection which had led to degenerative kidney disease, he added.
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An avid football player in high school, Riley later contracted an intensely painful degenerative back disease known as rheumatoid spondylitis.
Doctors diagnosed Funicello with multiple sclerosis, a degenerative neurological disease, in 1987.
He was 62, and an autopsy found that he had the degenerative brain disease CTE, thought to be caused by head trauma.
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"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.
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.
Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte portray an extraordinary (real-life) couple named Michaela and Augusto Odone, whose five-year-old son, Lorenzo, is found to have an extremely rare, ruthlessly degenerative, incurable disease.
This is what Diane Pretty, a British woman with a fatal degenerative condition called motor neurone disease, wants to do, by committing suicide.
He next plans to use lab-made tissue and see if he can successfully treat a degenerative, blindness-causing eye disease in monkeys.
Ms Cooper told the Commons that the research could hold "the key to healing within the human body", giving hope not only to those suffering from degenerative diseases but also cancer and heart disease victims.
Among them are neural cells to treat spinal cord injury and degenerative nervous system diseases, cardiomyocytes to treat heart disease, pancreatic islet cells to treat diabetes, dendritic cells for cancer therapy, chondrocytes for arthritis, osteoblasts to rebuild bone and hepatocytes for drug discovery and liver failure.
Dr. Alan Colman, a member of the team that cloned Dolly the sheep -- the first cloned mammal -- in 1997, told CNN that within 20 years stem cell therapies could be used to treat degenerative diseases such as diabetes, congestive heart failure and Parkinson's disease.
She said the study suggested that in people with degenerative brain diseases, memories were not erased from the brain, but rather could not be accessed because of the disease.
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