incurable

They include having a "serious and incurable illness", making a "voluntary request that is not the result of external pressure" and be in an "advanced state of irreversible decline in capability".

It is incurable, but according to the NHS website, it does not usually affect life expectancy.

He had to have an amputation and has been left with incurable cancer.

The technique has been legal here for a decade but we now have the first proof it is leading to children born free of incurable mitochondrial disease.

But Dr McCarthy, who has incurable cancer, said the process was aggressive and unfair.