In glossy brochures and seminars, New Life sells itself as "one of the foremost leaders in the estate planning field" and offers commissions--typically 6% , but sometimes more--if clients sign up for its charitable gift annuities.
What we are talking about is a fundamental human right: health is obviously essential to life itself, as it is pointed out in Article 14 of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights of 2005.
Even a relatively developed democracy such as Mexico now finds itself in a life-or-death struggle against gangsters.
The profundity of this technological revolution is that in an age when our material needs (at least in rich countries) are largely met, the commodity that stands out as being most scarce is life-span itself.
And so I came to suspect that the only truly believable computer program would be one able to ape life itself, since thinking as we know it exists only as a purposive tool of living organisms.
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Although it's not life-threatening itself, the disease can lead to life-threatening complications such as pneumonia and swallowing problems, according to the Mayo Clinic.
There are many such paradoxes in chess, much as there are in good writing or in life itself.
At number 4, Regent Sounds - where that first Stones album was nurtured into life - is itself being reborn as a specialist independent guitar shop.
"His work is dark because his life itself was dark, " Kote told me as we admired the exhibition.
The ease with which we can lead a single life is, as sociologists show, a social achievement in itself.
This week on MORNING EDITION, we've been listening as the city of New Orleans tries to bring itself back to life.
McCullough's point was that students should focus less on being seen as special and instead understand that living life is special in and of itself.
Mr. Truffaut described it as "a hymn to love, and perhaps a hymn to life itself, " and its optimism still shines with a welcome sincerity.
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Wilson is betting that so-called fracking, the supposed wonder technology that is being touted as a new lease on life for fossil fuels, will have burnt itself out by the 2030s.
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Jarrold and his screenwriters, Kevin Hood and Sarah Williams, have decided to treat the life of Jane Austen (Anne Hathaway) as if it were itself the plot of an undiscovered Austen novel, albeit a second-rate one.
The United Nations itself lists longevity as one of the criteria for determining quality of life.
The payoff promises to be a scientific bonanza of data about alien life that survives such extreme conditions as well as clues to the origins of the Earth itself.
So Droid Life -- which has earned itself a solid record in the rumor game as of late -- is reporting that Verizon Wireless will be dropping the "Wireless" portion of its name this weekend and announcing that it won't be carrying the iPhone 4, instead concentrating on its high-end line of Android devices that it's done an admirable job of building up lately.
The other presence is the city itself -- vast, throbbing with life, teeming with misery and, as depicted here, all but unfathomable to Westerners seeking to penetrate its secrets.
As well as displaying photographs of the ship itself, the exhibition will attempt to give an insight into life at the Harland and Wolff shipyard and in Belfast more generally in 1911.
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