Does not everyone, including the hale and hearty, have the right to choose the timing and manner of their own death?

ECONOMIST: Let death be my dominion

Sick animals often have higher white-cell counts as their bodies churn out more ammunition to fight the infection, but those in the Virginian study all came from zoos, and were believed to be hale and hearty.

ECONOMIST: Promiscuity pays

Its facilities were meager, its staff limited (there were no doctors on duty), and its hygiene suspect, but it was the same place where Mbali had been delivered hale and hearty by a midwife three years before and late that evening, with the same woman in attendance, Daphne gave birth to the boy.

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