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| | death with dignity * will we ever arrive at the good death? |
 | | People who sit beside someone who is close to death, someone in a stage the experts call ''active dying,'' might hear a sound that's not quite a snore, not quite a gurgle, not quite a rasp. |
 | | Death often comes as something of a surprise - which is odd, when you think about it, because people who die tend to be old and sick already. |
 | | Usually, death from kidney failure is relatively peaceful: a short time after dialysis is withdrawn, the patient slips into a coma and, soon after, quietly dies. |
| www.deathwithdignity.org /voices/opinion/nytimes.08.07.05.asp (8115 words) |
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