In circumstances like these, I would want to die sooner rather than later and in my own home.
Of course, it could be argued that refusal of treatment is often tantamount to a wish to die sooner.
As for well-being, other studies show that elderly people who stop working tend to die sooner than their peers who labour on.
But even with all the advances of the 20th century the fact remains - poor people are ill more often and die sooner.
These individuals will be sicker, die sooner, and have infected more of their partners than they would have if they had been tested earlier.
As Greg points out in his piece, other than someone who is healthy at the time they are run over by a truck or simply prefer to die sooner than is required by modern medicine, everyone will need health care.
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The study, published in 2009 in one of the journals of the Public Library of Science, PLoS Computational Biology, also showed that patients who developed diseases that tend to coincide with many others were more likely to die sooner than people whose diseases were more tangentially connected.
The more VEGF a tumor produces, the faster your cancer grows--and the sooner you die.
Studies of weather-related mortality have found that with heat-related deaths there tends to be a significant level of death "displacement" - put bluntly those who were likely to die anyway simply died sooner, so the period after a heat wave tends to see fewer than average deaths.
Patricia Lara, a Colombian journalist with good guerrilla contacts, reported last week that Mr Marulanda has prostate cancer, and is likely to die within six months, and perhaps sooner.
We will all die someday, but my expiration date is sooner than most.
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