The average American is 36 times more likely to die from heart disease than be murdered, six times more likely to die in an accident and four times more likely to die from Alzheimer's disease, according to data compiled by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.
Medicare requires that a physician certify that a person is likely to die within six months before she can be enrolled.
Without a transplant, they said, he could die in six months.
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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.
Overall, men with any type of cancer were six percent more likely to die of their disease than women with cancer.
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One big one: enrolling patients who are not terminally ill, or at least not likely to die within the six-month window Medicare requires.
Save the Children says another reason is poverty and inequality, as women with unemployed partners are six times more likely to die as a result of complications during pregnancy or childbirth.
Bile duct tumours are not very responsive to drug treatment or radiotherapy and people usually die within three to six months of diagnosis.
Ms. Jolie, 37, writes that she made the choice with thoughts of her six children after watching her own mother die too young from breast cancer.
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".
Yet, according to the best available data, kamikaze trees crush only some six people to death a year (though more die after driving into fallen trees or branches).
People living in the poorest communities are around six times more likely to be admitted to hospital and to die due to alcohol misuse than those from the most affluent areas.
In particular, the American Cancer Society study finds that women who sit for more than six hours a day were about 40% more likely to die during the course of the study than those who sat fewer than three hours per day.
Jolie, 37, writes that she made the choice with thoughts of her six children after watching her own mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand, die too young from cancer.
Jolie, 37, writes that she made the choice with thoughts of her six children after watching her own mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand, die too young from breast cancer.
The study also found that motorcyclists were 30 times more likely to die in crashes than car drivers and made up one in six of all road deaths - despite accounting for only 1% of all miles travelled.
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One in six men will develop full-fledged tumors, and one in 35 will die of the disease.
The Supreme Court triggered an outrage when it voted to grant Echegaray a six-month reprieve, until June 15, three hours before he was scheduled to die by lethal injection.
Compared with people who drank no coffee at all, men and women who drank six or more cups per day were 10% and 15% less likely, respectively, to die during the study.
He had asked her once, during a bad stretch six months ago, when he was being treated regularly with formidable steroids, if he was going to die.
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