...on at least one Midwestern campus a dirk may be an oddball student, while a prick (more common) is of course an offensive one.

If new legal considerations regarding treatment of the pre-dead are introduced, then the provisions ought to allow individuals to express prior wishes as to their preferences for how they wish to be cared for in pre-dead states, or even to allow for a 'conscience clause' such that they or their advocates could reject such a notion whilst retaining no right of veto over the existing cardiorespiratory and brain stem considerations of death.

In the course of these debates, philosophy, the champion of knowledge and reason, began to gain the upperhand over theology, the champion of faith and religion. That this happened was also due to the changing circumstances of life.

They are happie men, whose natures sort with their vocations, otherwise they may say Multum incola fuit anima mea; when they converse in those things they doe not affect.