Their prognosis is poor and they are not expected to live very long.

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And suddenly if the price of gasoline doubles, it's going to be very expensive to live a long way from work.

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As tempting as this may be, you need to take your time with making these important decisions because, for the most part, there are no do-overs and you will have to live with your decisions for a very long time.

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You very likely won't live that long, but James Sisnett did.

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In reality, though, most of us cannot predict very well how long we might live.

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University of California, San Francisco researcher Cynthia Kenyon later engineered worms that live six times as long as normal, wiggling around vigorously until the very end.

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Modern medicine is great in that it's given us a chance to live long and happy lives but in cases where medicine is just prolonging the suffering of very ill people I think it's time for a review of the law.

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