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  2. End-of-life care - Wikipedia

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    End-of-life care (EOLC) is health care provided in the time leading up to a person's death.End-of-life care can be provided in the hours, days, or months before a person dies and encompasses care and support for a person's mental and emotional needs, physical comfort, spiritual needs, and practical tasks.

  3. Terminal lucidity - Wikipedia

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    Terminal lucidity (also known as rallying, terminal rally, the rally, end-of-life-experience, energy surge, the surge, or pre-mortem surge) [1] is an unexpected return of consciousness, mental clarity or memory shortly before death in individuals with severe psychiatric or neurological disorders.

  4. Palliative sedation - Wikipedia

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    In medicine, specifically in end-of-life care, palliative sedation (also known as terminal sedation, continuous deep sedation, or sedation for intractable distress of a dying patient) is the palliative practice of relieving distress in a terminally ill person in the last hours or days of a dying person's life, usually by means of a continuous intravenous or subcutaneous infusion of a sedative ...

  5. Final Exit Network - Wikipedia

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    Final Exit Network, Inc. (FEN) is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit right to die advocacy group incorporated under Florida law. [1] It holds that mentally competent adults who suffer from a terminal illness, intractable pain, or irreversible physical (though not necessarily terminal) conditions have a right to voluntarily end their lives. [2]

  6. Herbert R. Spencer - Wikipedia

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    Herbert Spencer was born on 16 January 1860, in Atherstone, Warwickshire; one of at least two children of Henry Spencer, a railway contractor.Spencer was named after his uncle, the philosopher and political theorist Herbert Spencer.

  7. Bore evacuator - Wikipedia

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    For best results, the breech must be opened at the proper time, just as the forward momentum of the gases reaches its maximum, the peak flow. This means that bore extractors are normally used only on guns with semi-automatic or fully automatic actions, where the breech is opened and the shell ejected as part of the recoil process.

  8. Cannon operation - Wikipedia

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    The sponge is a long staff or rammer with a piece of fleece sheep or lambskin wound about its end, to serve for scouring the cannon when discharged, before it is to be charged with fresh powder. This cleaning prevents any spark or fire from remaining in the piece, which would endanger the life of the loading crew.

  9. Outline of death - Wikipedia

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    End of lifelife is the characteristic distinguishing physical entities having signaling and self-sustaining processes from those that do not, [1] [2] either because such functions have ceased , or because they lack such functions and are classified as inanimate. [3] [4] [5] (Death is) the opposite of: Life – (see above)