And furthermore, that nervous tissue brain gets cancer, and brain cells are also terminally differentiated.

Is there a reason for this? And a lot of the replies I got were that muscle is terminally differentiated tissue.

This brilliant scientist learns that Vasily Aleksanyan, the terminally ill Yukos lawyer, was held in prison in inhuman conditions. Another lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, died in prison after being refused medical treatment.

Runaway growth and development have left about 70 of China s lakes and rivers severely polluted, many unfit for human use of any kind. Indeed, nearly a half billion Chinese lack access to clean drinking water, and the number of terminally polluted rivers and lakes grows daily.

In May, he admitted during a live television broadcast that he suffers from a kidney ailment, but sought to quell rumors that he was terminally ill by insisting that fears for his health are greatly exaggerated and politically motivated. There are plenty of world leaders in less than perfect health.

Saylan was terminally ill with cancer at the time and died shortly thereafter. But the case against her associates continued and became part of a vast wave of trials directed against opponents of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his allies in the powerful Gülen movement, made up of the followers of the Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen.

If you reply that the girls who want to wear headscarves to school aren t living in Nigeria or Saudi Arabia, and almost certainly don t share the extreme Wahhabi views found in those countries, you will be met with a look of almost indulgent pity, a look of the type reserved for the terminally naïve. Or you will be told stories about how Saudi trained imams are twisting the girls arms, turning them into unwilling stalking horses for Islam.

Suicide is not a crime in Canada, so, as Taylor put it I simply cannot understand why the law holds that the able bodied who are terminally ill are allowed to shoot themselves when they have had enough because they are able to hold a gun steady, but because my illness affects my ability to move and control my body, I cannot be allowed compassionate help to allow me to commit an equivalent act using lethal medication.