Most of all, it's to live in the knowledge that you're going to die.

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Previous studies have looked at a different kind of fatalism, and that's the idea that if you get cancer, you're going to die from it.

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"What you're telling their constituents is that they are going to die, " said Assemblyman James Tedisco, a Republican representing Schenectady and Saratoga counties.

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