terminally ill

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Mr Rogoff likens the situation to that of a terminally ill patient who is offered a risky treatment that may cure the disease but is sure to have nasty long-term side-effects.
Mr Rogoff把形勢(shì)比作一個(gè)絕癥病人接受一項(xiàng)有風(fēng)險(xiǎn)的治療，也許能冶好但確定會(huì)有嚴(yán)重的、長(zhǎng)期的副作用。
The police did not investigate the deaths earlier this year of Peter and Penelope Duff, who became the first terminally ill British couple to be helped to die together in Switzerland.
警方并沒有調(diào)查今年早些時(shí)候彼得和佩內(nèi)洛普·達(dá)夫夫婦的死亡，他們是第一對(duì)在瑞士接受安樂死的絕癥英國夫婦。
This showed that when doctors had frank conversations about the end of life with terminally ill cancer patients, the patients typically chose not to request very intensive medical interventions.
當(dāng)醫(yī)生直白地告訴病人，他因?yàn)榻^癥將要走到生命的盡頭的時(shí)候，患者通常會(huì)選擇拒絕過分密集的醫(yī)療介入。

which former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said on the Internet would decide whether terminally ill senior citizens would live or die.
Well, the reason for thinking otherwise, the reason for not being utterly dismissive of this suggestion, is that when people get ill, terminally ill, it often seems to take them by surprise.
其他的想法產(chǎn)生的原因，人們沒有完全摒棄這個(gè)假設(shè)的原因，是當(dāng)人們得病，病入膏肓?xí)r，這通常讓人措手不及。
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Two hundred seventy people were killed in the attack. Opposition Scottish Labor leader Iain Gray was blunt in his criticism of Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill, who made the call to allow Abdel Basset al-Megrahi to leave prison and return home to Libya on compassionate grounds because he is terminally ill.

Paul worked in a hospice where he sat among the terminally ill and watched them die.
NEWYORKER: The Valetudinarian