The space station would slowly die.

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"We provide a space in which people can prepare to die in a way that is accepted and nourishing to them and fraught with meaning, " Scharff said.

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But what about the view held by some, particularly in the technology space, that companies have to grow or die?

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The immediate calls for his head from the Tories will now die away and he has certainly won himself a breathing space - but it is only that.

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