unrelievable

Worse than the physical pain was his unrelievable sorrow.

Chrysalis couldn't stand any more of the unrelievable suffering.

She knew the girl felt what she had felt when her boys died: unrelievable grief.

Nor does the law require that the patient be experiencing unrelievable suffering: a diagnosis of terminal illness is sufficient.

The Groningen protocol is concerned with an element not present in the above cases: unbearable and unrelievable suffering.

It was made even worse, I suppose, by unrelievable blackness to which I awoke.

She died in Chesterton Hospital after an old age made unhappy by Parkinson's disease and unrelievable mental anguish.

Apart from the euphemism about "falling asleep", the reference to unrelievable pain is - on Nitschke's own admission - now outdated.

Other studies conducted in the Netherlands have indicated how voluntariness is compromised, alternatives are not presented, and the criterion of unrelievable suffering is bypassed.

In physician-assisted suicide, competent terminally ill patients experiencing unrelievable suffering obtain prescriptions for and self-administer potentially lethal medication.

Around three quarters of Australians are in favour of doctors being able to give a lethal dose if requested by a hopelessly ill patient experiencing unrelievable suffering.

Second casts, the singers who relieve first-string operatives at later performances of a run, can be unrelievable disasters, especially at the prices the house is obliged to charge.

If the newborn's prognosis is hopeless and the pain both severe and unrelievable, it observes, the parents and physicians "may concur that death would be more humane than continued life."

In Britain in 1991, Dr Nigel Cox was found guilty of the attempted murder of a 70-year old terminally ill woman who was suffering immense unrelievable pain.

The reason I got into "The Road Warrior" was that Max carried unrelievable sorrow (because of the loss of his wife and son), which he channeled into the chivalrous cosmic hero mold.

If a hopelessly ill patient, experiencing unrelievable suffering with absolutely no chance of recovering asks for a lethal dose, so as not to wake again, should a doctor be allowed to give a lethal dose or not?

Death rates for pregnant women would remain the same because the acute problems that ultimately cause those deaths - drought, unrelievable heat, lack of medical and hygiene facilities, and primitive agricultural technology - remain unsolved in the third world.

As the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law wrote, "Once society authorizes assisted suicide for...terminally ill patients experiencing unrelievable suffering, it will be difficult if not impossible to contain the option to such a limited group.

Standards set by the Canadian Council on Animal Care dictate that "in the case of any animal that is judged by veterinary staff to be in unrelievable distress, the veterinarian must have the authority to proceed with humane euthanasia of the animal."

Mark Clare is burdened also by the unrelievable sadness of his wife, Kathleen, whose withered leg has crippled her emotionally as well as physically; we are told that it has kept her from having the child she wants and has even prevented her from adopting one.

"Three of the seven surviving monkeys have been judged to be strong candidates for euthanasia since the spring of 1988 because they give evidence of frequent, unrelievable pain," William F. Raub, the N.I.H. acting director, said in announcing the institutes' plans on Monday.