The simple view is that medicine exists to fight death and disease, and that is, of course, its most basic task.

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Life as we know it exists because of death and decay.

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At its very core, life exists because of death.

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This cryogenic sculpture, reliant on its umbilical cord of electricity, quite literally articulates the fragile balance that exists between life and death.

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This information was then linked to the National Death Index (yes, such a database really exists).

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Since a law was passed in 2009, a judge can impose death in Maryland only if one of three factors exists: DNA evidence, a videotaped confession or a videotaped murder.

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