There is every reason to recognize that in the very last years of his life, as we shall see, Thompson did take the drug in carefully rationed doses to ease the pains of his illness, but the exact date at which this began has never been determined.

One study examined the physical health of mothers who volunteered over a 30-year period and found that 52 % of those who did not belong to a volunteer organization experienced a major illness while only 36 % of those who did volunteer experienced one.

Abbot Kuno did not relent, however, until Hildegard was stricken by an illness that kept her paralyzed and unable to move from her bed, an event that she attributed to God's unhappiness at her not following his orders to move her nuns to Rupertsberg.

He was familiar with mental illness ( his sister had bouts of depression ), and Bogart encouraged Tierney to seek treatment, which she did.

Of 293 Christian church members, more than 32 percent were told by their church pastor that they or their loved one did not really have a mental illness, and that the cause of their problem was solely spiritual in nature, such as a personal sin, lack of faith or demonic involvement.

Mozart did not have the pleasure of witnessing this milestone, having died of his illness on 5 December 1791.

One old study from 1997 found that it did not matter how close you were to a power line or a sub-station, there was no increased risk of cancer or illness.

It did not recommend the use of ECT as a maintenace therapy in depressive illness as " the long-term benefits and risks ... had not been clearly established ".

Due to his illness, he mostly stayed at home bedridden, and therefore did little to further the Medici control of Florence while in power.

In December 1909, Knollys thought the proposal to create peers or give the prime minister the right to do so " outrageous " and that the King should abdicate – the King did talk of doing so that winter, but this was probably a symptom of his illness.

In early 1016 the army assembled by Edmund dispersed when Æthelred did not appear to lead it, probably due to illness.

She always made it clear that, whilst her life, which included a spell of severe mental illness, contributed to the themes contained within her work, she did not write explicitly autobiographical poetry.

Sauvé did recover, and was released from care on March 3, though the illness had delayed her installation ceremony, which had been scheduled to take place that month.

Sauvé remained secretive about the exact nature of the illness, and did not pay attention to rumours that she had developed Hodgkin's lymphoma, stating in interviews that it was a private matter, and that she was well enough to uphold her responsibilities.

Macmillan then attended Summer Fields School, Oxford ( 1903 – 6 ), but his time at Eton College ( 1906 – 10 ) was blighted by recurrent illness, starting with a near-fatal attack of pneumonia in his first half ; he missed his final year after being invalided out, and had to be taught at home by private tutors ( 1910 – 11 ), notably Ronald Knox, who did much to instil his High Church Anglicanism.

In the film, Monk's son, T. S. Monk, says that his father sometimes did not recognize him, and he reports that Monk was hospitalized on several occasions due to an unspecified mental illness that worsened in the late 1960s.

Owing to chronic illness, he did not find a job or marry, but lived with his brother Adolf in Vienna.

Although he did not compose any formal death poem on his deathbed the following, being the last poem recorded during his final illness, is generally accepted as his poem of farewell:

Life magazine did a March 1988 cover story on her illness, entitled " Gilda Radner's Answer to Cancer: Healing the Body with Mind and Heart ".

His head fell to the earth but, due to his divine nature, he did not die, and his head now rolls around, causing mischief, illness, and death.

" She became convinced that illness could be healed through an awakened thought brought about by a clearer perception of God and the explicit rejection of drugs, hygiene and medicine based upon the observation that Jesus did not use these methods for healing: It is plain that God does not employ drugs or hygiene, nor provide them for human use ; else Jesus would have recommended and employed them in his healing.

Although Batu stated he was suffering from old age and illness and politely refused the invitation, it seems that he did not support the election of Guyuk Khan because Güyük and Büri, grandson of Chagatai Khan, had quarreled violently with Batu at a victory banquet during the Mongol occupation of Eastern Europe.

In 2001 the integrity of former MP Tara Singh Varma came into doubt: it was revealed that she had lied about her illness and that she had made promises to development organisations which she did not fulfill.

Inside were all the things they thought she ought to know concerning the last illness, death, and burial of Cousin Alexander Carraway.

Smith spent the next two months nursing his father through his last illness.

Their last meeting was in 1658 at Hampton Court, though they could not speak for long or meet again because of the Protector's worsening illness — Fox even wrote that " he looked like a dead man ".

* The deceased was not attended by a doctor during their last illness ;

This reduced his opportunities for composition, and his last years were dogged by serious illness.

Her work had tailed off during the last few years of her life because of her illness, and as some townspeople misinterpreted the effects of the increasing doses of laudanum she was taking for the pain, there had been gossip in Lyme that she had a drinking problem.

The last few also contained a precise description of his own illness.

Neither the serious illness of the Empress, which began with a fainting-fit at Tsarskoe Selo ( 19 September 1757 ), nor the fall of Bestuzhev ( 21 February 1758 ), nor the cabals and intrigues of the various foreign powers at Saint Petersburg, interfered with the progress of the war, and the crushing defeat of Kunersdorf ( 12 August 1759 ) at last brought Frederick to the verge of ruin.

Whatever the cause, in his acute illness, which lasted fifteen days, Raphael was composed enough to receive the last rites, and to put his affairs in order.

The death of the Black Prince on 8 June 1376 and the onset of Edward III's last illness at the closing of Parliament on 10 July, left Gaunt with all the reins of power.

James visited Anne only three times during her last illness, though Prince Charles often slept in the adjoining bedroom at Hampton Court Palace and was at her bedside during her last hours, when she had lost her sight.

( Seeing all her children assembled at her bedside in her last illness.

During the filming of his last Perry Mason movie in the spring of 1993, Raymond Burr fell ill. A Viacom spokesperson told the media that the illness might be related to the malignant kidney that Burr had removed that February.

* The passage of a law ( in 1999 ) which provided legal access to and development of palliative care, “ allowing legal leave to support a family member in the last stage of a terminal illness .”

For the rest of her life, Mary kept the last letter from her bon mari et ami ( her good husband and friend Louis ), which mentioned his illness and explained his absence at Rouen.

Characteristically he said of his last illness: " I know it would be better to give up the booze, fags and birds, but life would be so boring wouldn't it.

As his health declined, Monk's last six years were spent as a guest in the New Jersey home of his long-standing patron and friend, Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter, who had also nursed Charlie Parker during his final illness.

As the movie opens, high school senior Ferris Bueller ( Matthew Broderick ) decides to skip school on a nice spring day by faking an illness to his parents ( Lyman Ward and Cindy Pickett ), then encourages his girlfriend, Sloane Peterson ( Mia Sara ) and his pessimistic best friend, Cameron Frye ( Alan Ruck ) to spend the day in Chicago as one of their last flings before they head off to different colleges.

He spends the last nineteen years of his life in prison, dying of alcoholism-related illness.

" Then after Menshikov had recovered from a brief illness, Peter turned his back on him and said, " You see, I am at last learning how to keep him in order.

Harold ( Hal ) Dobbs: one of Robert's last Ph. D. students during the one year his idol and mentor's illness went into remission, at least enabling Robert to teach, if not continue his own creative mathematical work