Because in just five days -- can you believe, five days -- (applause) -- we have the opportunity to re-elect such a decent, honest man -- (applause) -- a man whose courage and integrity we have seen every day for the last four years, the man I have known and loved for 23 years -- my husband, our President, Barack Obama. (Applause.) That's why we're here.

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He hopes the programme, which was researched with various hospice organisations and in co-operation with the man and his family at every stage, will help break the 'last taboo' and make it easier for people face the 'final journey'.

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The coincidence of two terrible contemporary tragedies -- Serbia's vicious conquest of one of the last Muslim outposts in Eastern Bosnia, Srebrenica, and the loss of virtually every man, woman and child who remained in the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas -- with the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising and the international remembrance of the Holocaust represents a defining moment in history.

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