But some studies have looked at different end-points, such as death from all causes, or pneumonia or heart attack.
One, such as death in sleep, is something we might all hope for.
It is natural to want to avoid thinking about these issues, but the age of the business owner is irrelevant to the need to create a business succession plan, as unforeseen events such as death or disability can occur at any time to anyone.
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Amazon Mechanical Turk used to be a popular one, but now a number of independent sites are around, such as Death by CAPTCHA. Clever hacks have even been developed for audio CAPTCHAs that merely deconstruct waveform shapes to identify what numbers are being spoken.
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Except that a pay-on-death form usually can't be customized to adapt to changing family circumstances, such as the death of a child.
Perhaps the only instance where crying is widely acceptable is when receiving bad news, such as the death of someone you know.
Shocking events, such as the death in Iranian custody last year of a female Canadian-Iranian journalist after she was beaten up, continue to remind the world how dissidents can be hounded and tortured.
Long after evidence emerged that over-hydrating could prove fatal to marathoners, experts continued encouraging runners to drink as much as possible leading to utterly preventable tragedies such as the death of a 43-year-old mother of three in the 1998 Chicago Marathon.
The FTC's target is not POM's generally worded, eye-catching ads with lines such as "Cheat Death, " said an agency official.
Characteristics of these Shari'a states include the severe marginalization of women and the institutionalization of punishments such as flogging and death by stoning.
New ideas have been floated, such as imposing the death penalty only in cases where guilt can be determined to a higher standard than normal beyond any, rather than just a reasonable, doubt.
One example which has been given is when families who have suffered a bereavement have to deal with several different agencies to sort out things such as funerals, death certificates and coroner requests.
Or, rather than one big 220 pound robot, a team could have several robots that add up to 220 pounds, such as the robots Death and Taxes, which fight as a multibot team.
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Despite incidents such as the recent death of a 6-year-old New Jersey boy shot in the head by a 4-year-old playmate, as well as the accidental shooting of a Tennessee sheriff's deputy's wife by a 4-year-old boy, accidental firearms deaths are rare among children.
The entire movie teeters on the edge of sick comedy in particular such scenes as the death of the Goebbels children, one by one, at the hands of their mother and at times one longs for a coldly malicious ironist like Brecht or Fassbinder to come in and take over.
In so doing, he became, by definition, unable to make rational decisions such as starving himself to death.
But the researchers found that even atypical causes of death such as accidents and injuries were elevated in smokers.
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"Throughout my examinations I could find no evidence of injuries that would suggest an accidental cause of death such as a fall, " he said.
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In general, trouble in the adoptive family, such as parental divorce, death, criminal activity, and alcohol problems was linked to a higher risk of drug abuse in the adopted child.
In addition to questionable pension plans, the IRS said Alexander oversaw creation of sham welfare-benefit plans, which are similar to pensions but fund other perks such as medical insurance and death benefits.
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Some protesters called for harsher punishments for convicted rapists, such as chemical castration and the death penalty.
Bulgaria was an ally of Nazi Germany during the war, when Jews were deported en masse from the Nazi-occupied Balkans to death camps such as Auschwitz.
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Although you may not need credit to cover expenses now, a stay-at-home mom needs to establish credit for emergencies, such as a divorce or the death of her husband.
Several of the dull-witted, mid-level bureaucrats of death, such as Colonel Eugene de Kock, head of a secret unit that murdered opponents of apartheid, have confessed in convincing detail.
Prosecutors in a capital case must first persuade jurors of Mr. Holmes's guilt, then, in a separate proceeding, convince the same jurors that aggravating circumstances such as multiple victims justify a death sentence.
Father Auth says the issue is important to these voters, but he says that they also look at what he calls broader life issues, such as the war, the death penalty and services for the poor.
To get this far, Turkey has taken such dramatic steps as abolishing the death penalty, accepting Kurdish as a language in schools, scrapping state security courts, revising the penal code and tightening civilian control over the army.
Prof Robert West, from the health behaviour research unit at University College London, said it was important to remember that smoking had more effects on the body than leading to an early death, such as ageing the skin.
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Justice later said the appointees had failed to support Bush administration priorities such as immigration enforcement or the death penalty, but admitted one was removed so a former aide to White House political adviser Karl Rove could get the post.
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