"Without this care it may become ill or even die, " she said.
Doctors estimate that someone refusing all liquids, depending on factors such as climate and metabolism, could suffer irreversible damage or even die "within five or six days".
And of course, the upshot of all this is anything but abstract: doctors are left ignorant about the drugs they are prescribing, and which will make their patients sick or get well, or even live or die.
And even Funny Or Die took time out to spoof the Royals when there are plenty of Americans who are doing stupid things and deserve to be made fun of.
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The genome has been deciphered and it is not the case that we can predict at a young age when people will die or even what nasty diseases they will get in old age.
For example, a high percentage of cats begin to develop symptoms of autoimmune disease such as hyperthyroid disease, inflammatory bowel disease, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis or cancer or feline leukemia and die when they are about 11 to13 years old or even before.
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The simplistic view of moral hazard was that ailing institutions must be allowed to die without help, or even put down, lest others follow down the same path.
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The Bruce Willis story perhaps inadvertently raised the question of what happens to purchased content, or even our own original content, after we die.
But for tax purposes the entire property will be included in the estate of the first to die, which could trigger state or even federal estate taxes on the whole property.
Kids know the short clips on "Funny or Die, " don't they, even if they never caught the Stooges online or DVD.
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But the usual fate of such ideas is that they die once the emergency passes, or are ignored even if they survive the journey from proposal to policy.
They tell me even in the U.S. or other developed countries women die of embolisms during childbirth.
Even the best surgeon can watch her patient die of an infection, accident or error because communication broke down among the team of professionals.
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Some reports even suggest that as much as 90% of enterprise social networking projects either falter or die on the vine within the first 3-6 months.
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Whether you are at the front or the back, you are still going fast enough to die - and you do not even have to be on the fastest part of the track to suffer serious injury or worse.
But what the press failed (or deliberately decided) not to scream in lurid prose (or even acknowledge in many cases) is the fact that the study also concludes that women marrying older men die earlier too.
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