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futilitarian /fjuːˌtɪlɪˈtɛːrɪən /adjectiveDevoted to futile pursuits.Just wave the futilitarian banner and bury your nose in a glass of sake....- But the final decision about the matter isn't his wife's: Under futilitarian Texas law, it belongs to committees of bioethicists and doctors.
- They thus believe in a random, futilitarian universe where - if they're existentialists - they might imagine that occasionally a heroic human being could assert some purpose above the froth of randomness, but in general, we're all doomed to decay and destruction.
nounA person devoted to futile pursuits.People with severe brain damage are not the only ones futilitarians want to push out of the life boat....- These people are called futilitarians; they believe it's impossible to fix the damage that we have created.
- To counter this threat, futilitarians are moving on two fronts to all but guarantee that courts will ultimately acquiesce to futile care theory.
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