...nna live either. I can’t stay with Mum and Dad. I think my old man’s going deaf. The TV blares away all day long. I can’t hear myself think. And anywa... ...cough’s going around. It’ll get better.” Her protests had so far fallen on deaf ears. She shut down her computer and wandered downstairs to see what J... ...ening to the body after sixty, that her teeth hurt, her joints hurt, she’s deaf as a post, and her heart flutters all the time and she hasn’t had a go... ...e. Jana had trea- sured the days with him because, at age thirteen, he was deaf and arthritic. When he had been unable to stand without whim- pering w... ...ative Department of Human Services reports 1998-2006 and three independent studies; the data from the Netherlands (where both PAS and euthanasia are n... ...nasia are now legal) comprised all four government-commissioned nationwide studies of end-of-life decision making (1990, 1995, 2001 and A COURAGEOUS B... ...nd A COURAGEOUS BATTLE - APPENDIX 308 SUSAN BRACKEN 2005) and specialised studies. Evidence of any disproportionate impact on 10 groups of potentiall... ...on euthanasia and suicide assistance using adapted scuba technology, Death Studies, in press 2010 [R.D. Ogden] Observation of two suicides by helium i... ...uicide: The technological imperative of the deathing counterculture, Death Studies, 2001, 25, 387-401 [R.D. Ogden] At the Very End of Life: The Emerge...

... was to examine consumer behavior in the adoption of ideas. The reporting of these studies, for purposes of this volume, has been reduced to the sim... ...rticular topic. That model has been applied widely in nutrition and birth control studies and is a useful research guide for many social cause proje... ...ibution to the innovation and diffusion of social communication literature. These studies, summarized in Medical Innovation (Coleman, Mendel and Ka... ...st (DeFleur and Ball-Rokeach 1975, p. 15). The hybrid corn and medical innovation studies established the empirical models that have held for some t... ...e two-step-flow model of communication but it has been validated in many empirical studies. Communication Effects In addition to communication e... ...els among at least 14 major cultures" (Martin 1968, p. 54). These appeals fell on deaf ears of people who were more concerned with health, appearanc...