The story has four narrators: Donald, a mixed-blood Indian, now middle-aged and dying of Lou Gehrig ’ s disease ; Donald ’ s wife, Cynthia, whom he rescued as a teen from the ruins of her family ; Cynthia ’ s brother David ( the central character of True North ); and her nephew and Donald ’ s soul mate K. Ultimately, the extended family helps Donald end his life at the place of his choosing, and then draw on the powers of love and commitment to reconcile loss and heal wounds borne for generations.

Ultimately the U.N. army in the Congo reached a top strength of 19,000, including about 5,000 from India and a few soldiers from Eire and Sweden, who were the only whites.

Ultimately, the abstract parallels between algebraic systems were seen to be more important than the details and modern algebra was born.

Ultimately, only two houses were built, neither designed by Gaudí.

Ultimately, the Saville Inquiry was inconclusive on Martin McGuinness's role due to a lack of certainty over his movements, concluding that while he was " engaged in paramilitary activity " during Bloody Sunday, and had probably been armed with a Thompson submachine gun, there was insufficient evidence to make any finding other than they were " sure that he did not engage in any activity that provided any of the soldiers with any justification for opening fire ".

Ultimately, around 11 million Africans were taken to the Caribbean and North and South America as slaves by European colonizers.

Ultimately, the rebellion had claimed the lives of over 1 million people, a majority of which were Jewish.

Ultimately, the genetics have in fact not yet told us anything new ; all these theories were well in place amongst archaeologists long before attempts were made to identify historical population movements with genetics.

Ultimately, Flare's resources to put it into mass production were limited.

Ultimately the Lutici and the Obotrites were able to liberate themselves from the German rule for the next two centuries.

Ultimately, motels were pushed further into decline or out of business entirely.

Ultimately, efforts to curb the unconstrained growth of tourist courts were futile as motor courts ( as motels were called in the 1930s and 1940s ) grew in number and popularity.

Ultimately, alcohol was banned and some arms were confiscated.

Ultimately Netanyahu failed to hold the government together, and early elections for both Prime Minister and the Knesset were called in 1999.

Ultimately the Doom-like mechanics were implemented and many of the dark fantasy design elements were incorporated into the graphics and visual effects of the game.

Ultimately, civil law and praetoric law were fused in the Corpus Juris Civilis.

Ultimately he endorsed the Democratic nominees, James M. Cox as president and Franklin Delano Roosevelt as vice president, but they were defeated by the Republican ticket of Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge.

Ultimately, the Catholic James II was overthrown in the Glorious Revolution, and his successors, the Protestants William III and Mary II, accepted the conditions that were codified in the Bill.

Ultimately, eleven territories were placed under trusteeship: seven in Africa and four in Oceania.

Ultimately, thousands of Jews were killed and the Romans destroyed many towns in re-establishing control over Judea ; they also took Jerusalem in 70.

Ultimately, in executing the operation, the trainees were found to have used considerable force, menacing a number of the staff and guests with weapons and physically assaulting the hotel manager.

Ultimately very few of the 88, 000 rounds produced were ever fired in combat.

Ultimately, the band did play, albeit an hour and a half after they were scheduled to appear.

Ultimately the underlying cause needs to be treated.

Ultimately, this is a frequent cause for itchy skin rashes.

Ultimately, the British Foreign Office decided that Kolchak could do more for the Allied cause by toppling Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks and bringing Russia back into the war on the Allied side.

Ultimately, several strains of laboratory mice have been found to be homozygous for single-gene mutations that cause them to become grossly obese, and they fall into two classes: " ob / ob ", those having mutations in the gene for the protein hormone leptin, and " db / db ", those having mutations in the gene that encodes the receptor for leptin.

Ultimately, De Geer hoped his studies of varves would explain the fundamental cause of Ice Ages-" If the last glaciation everywhere should show to be synchronous and the origin of the last Ice Age thus to be of a general nature, the assumption of a cosmic cause would scarcely be avoidable.

Ultimately, Eliza ’ s lack of sincerity and commitment cause him to end his pursuit of her.

Ultimately, it becomes apparent that the novel concerns the lurches of a lethargic society, trying desperately to find a cause for which to progress.

Ultimately, however, Anami insisted that while he was sympathetic with the rebels ' cause, he could not actively oppose the wishes of the Emperor.

Ultimately, the researchers came to the conclusion that variations in spectral bandwidth cause postreceptoral mechanisms to compensate for the filtering effects imposed by cone sensitivities and preretinal absorption and that the Abney Effect occurs because the eye has, in a sense, been tricked into seeing a color which would not naturally occur and must therefore approximate the color.

Ultimately, she came to believe that HIV was not the cause of AIDS, and formed Alive & Well to expound her views.

Ultimately, he is too caught up in what Shang-Chi calls ' games of deceit and death ' and fails in this role.

Ultimately Kievan Rus ' disintegrated, with the final blow being the Mongol invasion of 1237 – 40, that resulted in the destruction of Kiev and the death of about half the population of Rus '.

Ultimately, this causes him to mercy kill his own son, which leads to his own death at the hands of the Furies.

Ultimately, it was concluded that Stewart was guilty and the Alpha Lanterns decided on the judgement of death for his crime.

Ultimately, Lancelot's affair with Guinevere is a destructive force, resulting in the death of Gawain's brothers and his two sons, the estrangement of Lancelot and Gawain, and Mordred's betrayal of King Arthur.

Ultimately, martyrdom symbolized obedience to the values represented by the church and reflected the belief that the church can fulfill and commend itself by self-sacrifice and death.

Ultimately the O ' Shea divorce issue and Parnell's premature death changed the shape of late 19th century politics, to an extent that can be but speculated.

Ultimately, iconophiles considered his death a divine punishment.

Ultimately, we are left with the question, how much are we prepared to pay in order to avert imminent death as individuals.

Ultimately, the death that Claire selects for Ill is one inspired by the same material desires that drove her former lover to betray her in the first place.

Ultimately, he was taken to the Nine Stane Rigg, a circle of stones hard by the castle, wrapped in lead, and boiled to death.

Ultimately, the company was bought out by Pearson Longman on 21 August 1970, some six weeks after the death of Allen Lane.

Ultimately, Oboi and his ally Banbursan produced a list of 24 crimes allegedly committed by Suksaha and ordered for him to be put to death by hanging in 1667.

Ultimately, Newman confessed that it was he who spread gasoline over Vigoreaux's car and set it on fire, burning Vigoreaux to death as he was still alive and locked in the trunk of the car.

Ultimately Johann accepted in 1478 a call there, where he continued to work with few interruptions until within a short time of his death.

Ultimately, the commission report combined with the intensification of the Cold War, which required that the United States have the West Germans on their side, led the American Army to commute the last death sentence to life imprisonment.

Ultimately, Karna's unfailing generosity resulted in his death on the Kurukshetra battlefield.

Ultimately Bryant was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and was admitted to Cheadle Royal Mental Health Hospital, Cheadle Hulme, Stockport where she remained as an in-patient until her death on New Year's Day 1988 at the age of 90.

Ultimately in 864 Charles the Bald made the practice punishable by death.

Ultimately this proved fruitless, by the time of Samsu-iluna's death Nippur recognized Iluma-ilu as

Ultimately, Egill was shipwrecked in Northumbria and came before Eiríkr's court, where he was promptly sentenced to death.

Ultimately, death is related to liver and brain metastases.

Ultimately, he took up life as a farmer in Virginia two years before his death.

Ultimately, Invincible chokes Conquest to death but is forced to an extended two month recovery.

Ultimately, the Danes ' control of Wessex was lost in 1042 with the death of both of Canute's sons ( Edward the Confessor retook Wessex for the Anglo-Saxons ).