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Previously his main concern had been that "vulnerable people could be pressured into hastening their own deaths", but he said he believed the current proposal contained "sufficient safeguards" to prevent this.

“I’ve done every hell gig possible in the world so I’m not easily thrown,” said Kilmartin, before hastening to add, “Not that I am implying this is a hell gig — I’m just saying!”

When the Red Army occupied Afghanistan in the 1980s, it suffered around 15,000 killed over a decade, triggering protests at home and hastening the demise of the Soviet Union.

In contrast, the city’s own Urban Forestry Commission condemned the ordinance as “flawed and rushed,” warning it would worsen canopy inequity by hastening removal of mature trees.

Most dangerous of all, he had stealthily stopped drinking water, hastening the physical collapse that often accompanies full-scale mental crises.