Half-dead already, his cancer comes as a sort of salvation, a chance at a new life even if it is a brief one.
Mohammed Rahman left Jasmin Chowdhury, 32, in a "half-dead state" after the attack at their home in the Isle of Dogs, south-east London, last December.
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The citizens of Boston and its suburbs allowed massively armed SWAT teams to enter their homes, order residents out and eventually find the bullet-riddled Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lying half-dead in a boat.
Dogs express their love and trust in many ways -- some lap at your face, knock you down with kisses as you come home, leave a half-dead animal on your pillow, or sit on your lap and sigh with contentment.
The explosion left at least a half dozen people dead, dozens injured, and nearly 40 homes completely destroyed.
They survived like that for the first 17 days, cut off from a world that had given them up for dead a half a mile under the Earth's surface.
With half your roster of allies dead and Black Rites (which sacrifice pieces of your body when used) bogging you down, choosing where to spend those points becomes important.
The situation in Japan was much the same: a country with a disciplined, homogenous population, no allies, sealed borders, its cities half burnt, more than three million dead, a million wounded, missing, or captured, its revered emperor having capitulated, and nearly half a million troops in occupation.
They account for nearly half the names on our overall dead celebs list, thanks to continued demand for their music, image, name and likeness.
Derby manager Nigel Clough was also upbeat after his side's late fightback that saw them put United under pressure after looking dead and buried at half-time.
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The flags at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, were to be flown at half-mast in honour of the dead, he added.
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To, to an extraordinary extent, the 20th century is littered with the history ... the bodies of British dead, but not our half of it, you see.
And in the wake of that, after four years, a quarter of a million people were dead, two and a half million people were refugees, many of them have still not gone home.
Stephen Jones' kick-off epitomised the Scarlets' season thus far - off kilter as the ball ran dead, bringing a scrum on half-way at which the Wales fly-half must have been relieved to see a free kick awarded against Ulster.
Perhaps due to her separate story-line, the writers of The Walking Dead have subjected us to nearly one half of the entire season devoted entirely to the most irritating character in the show.
The 47-year-old car driver, from Grimsby, was confirmed dead at the scene of the automated half-barrier crossing on Woad Lane, while the other, a 40-year-old man from Cleethorpes, died on the way to hospital, BTP said.
However, punters with those bookies will only get their winnings to half the stake placed, as the result is considered a dead heat.
Attempts to reduce the waste being dumped into the Baltic have so far failed to stop the growth of the dead zone, now equivalent to around one and half times the size of Denmark.
The motivations of about half the attackers are difficult to classify because the perpetrator is either dead or has fled.
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But sometimes the whole experience just seems rather half-hearted and pointless, as is the case with Red Dead Redemption and Uncharted.
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However, on both occasions when it looked like the tourists would be walked over and left for dead - they always came storming back in the second half to deny any major thumping.
With those words David Cameron heralded his arrival in Algeria - the first Western leader to visit this country since the hostage crisis which left 38 foreigners dead and the first British prime minister to visit in half a century of Algerian independence.
While Apple maintained the top spot for the ninth time in a row through US customers' happiness with the hardware design and ease of use, most of its major competitors made big strides in reliability, speed and camera quality in the past half-year -- to the point where there was a virtual dead heat for second place between HTC, Motorola, Nokia and Samsung.
In 1988, the accumulated debris and dead wood of decades was consumed in a catastrophic conflagration that covered half the park.
"Second screen strategies that are just one of half a million apps on the App Store, I think they're dead, " Navin said.
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