Payments vary according to the mortality experience of a pool of buyers who join the tontine together.

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In the past few decades, medical science has rendered obsolete centuries of experience, tradition, and language about our mortality, and created a new difficulty for mankind: how to die.

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There is an impact on the number of hospital visits and there is an impact on mortality, even at concentrations that many countries experience.

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The point is that, based on its past experience, Russia should have seen continued modest improvement in the early months of 2013 but that sundry forms of mortality that were usually of limited importance increased sharply.

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