Patients and their families decide to take this step after long-term discussions and deep soul-searching.

That day sent Singh into deep soul-searching.

It was no great epiphany or anything like that, and there was hardly any deep soul-searching involved.

In Australia, these revelations have provoked some deep soul-searching, particularly among the literati who were so emphatically duped.

"These are significant failures and the industry has done some deep soul-searching to make certain we are not missing important risk factors," he added.

"It has not been a deep soul-searching as far as I know, but more in terms of managing the process."

But he said he expected the latest attack to set off deeper soul-searching, particularly among parents, who seem more worried than the students who actually go.

Europe was also put to the test and the European Union has to do some deep soul-searching.

He could see that to live with him and to give up certain freedoms, to rearrange her entire life, would require some deep and time-consuming soul-searching.

"There has to be deep soul-searching by the political leadership, by the religious leadership, by the families and all the residents," he said.