Defenders of the devices are likely to argue that the stents are used to treat chest pain, not to prevent death, so the study's results should not have a big effect.

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In it, her father concluded that the concept of happiness can't apply to God and that, as long as pain and death are in the world, it can't apply to humans either.

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He expressed sorrow about the death of Gates' mother, shared the pain of the recent death of his own mother and gave golfing tips to Melinda.

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First, pain is not a particularly significant factor in leading people to ask for death: in the Netherlands, only 5% of requests for assisted suicide or euthanasia come from those who described themselves as being in unbearable pain.

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After his death, she threw herself into her work "to ease the pain".

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And because the principle of the hospice movement is neither to hasten nor to postpone death, the Medicare hospice benefit pays only for symptom management and pain control.

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The mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence has said her "pain is raw", at a memorial service to mark the 20th anniversary of her son's death.

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