It said hundreds of millions of people would die of starvation in the 1970s.
And Labour backbencher Fiona MacTaggart warned that two million people would die before the changes came into force.
Yet how many billions of people would die if we did that?
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In other words, if we cured all diseases and prevented all accidents, people would still die (of old age) in a narrow bell curve distribution centered on 85.
Mortality rates are calculated by examining how many people would be expected to die, taking into account age and disease profile of the local population.
That is because about a quarter of these people would be expected to die from cancer even had they not been exposed to Chernobyl's radiation.
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There were a few other Do Ya Puffs I knew around the immediate neighborhood, people who were born, lived and would probably die on the same block, people who played whatever cards they were dealt and meant no harm to anyone.
In surveys, the majority of people say they would prefer to die in their own home while receiving hospice care than in a nursing home or hospital.
Mortality rates are calculated by looking at the number of people that would be expected to die when taking into account the age and disease profile of the local population.
Death rates are calculated by looking at the number of people that would be expected to die when taking into account the age and disease profile of the local population.
And there are billions of people around the world who would die to be here and have that opportunity to prosper and be part of this great middle class of ours.
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Around the world, millions of people at the margins of survival would die.
Would you know how many people die a year in automobile crashes?
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Without vaccines, countless thousands of people would fall ill every holiday season after mingling with other shoppers, and some would likely die.
Anti-euthanasia campaigners believe right-to-die legislation would endanger vulnerable people who are unable to protect themselves, and may choose suicide because they feel they are a burden to carers.
The bill would allow terminally ill people to seek help to die at a time of their choosing, a form of legalised assisted suicide.
The bill, brought forward by Independent MSP Margo MacDonald, would allow terminally ill people to seek help to die at a time of their choosing, a form of legalised assisted suicide.
Obviously some people think it's shocking, but many players would die to play a Grand Slam quarter-final.
The sheikh said he was not afraid of being arrested and would even be willing to die if it helped his people to earn some dignity.
Should Aleksey Kirillovich die, there would be at the very least two people weeping for him: his wife and his son.
Nearly 8, 000 people die from oral cancer each year, which Dr. Chu Chen would like to change.
These were formerly rich people who were impoverished by government attacks and injustices, but who would prefer to die rather than beg.
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Moving into China--where 1 million people a year die from cigarettes, according to the World Health Organization--would certainly help.
The Nuffield Council's report also considers moving to an "opt-out" system for deceased organ donation, under which it would be assumed that people consent to donation unless they either opt out before they die, or their family later objects.
But it is worth considering that if anti-nuclear campaigners were to succeed in their quest, they would undoubtedly usher about a world that burns more fossil fuels, where more people die every day from our energy system, and where we bequeath climatic chaos for future generations.
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"If we could keep people who are still functioning from having any further decline for five years--then they would probably die from something else, " says Todd Golde, a neuroscientist at the Mayo Clinic, in Jacksonville, Fla.
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