The fact that the patient has arrived at this life-and-death point by a selfinflicted act is ethically relevant, but it is not dispositive.
First, in distinction from the ordinary work of providing for people's basic needs, modern medicine often involves intensive interventions, with dramatic life-and-death results.
The outstanding questions may not be as urgent as the life-and-death matters that first drove the development of liberalism.
In any given simulation, choice of representation is of key importance, but it is rarely regarded as a life-and-death ideological issue whether these codes are local or distributed.
In a life-and-death struggle we cannot afford to have our destinies in the hands of failures or men who need a rest.
Their fun comes from witnessing the life-and-death struggle of fox and terrier.
We have a social services inspectorate to deal with many of the life-and-death issues in which the social services departments are involved.
I suggest that when we are engaged in a life-and-death struggle, political strategy is not the game to play.
