The key to these trusts is staying alive long enough for them to work their magic.
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Understandably, most Iraqis are now entirely focused on staying alive and providing for their families.
Staying alive and sane in such a situation requires grit and determination.
And speaking of staying alive, one key component of staying alive is belonging, or being like the other critters in the environment.
"They're staying alive when the prediction would say that they should die, " said Prof Alastair Buchan from Oxford University who has investigated how they survive.
And proving ownership by document can be difficult, particularly as the looting was done during times of war, when staying alive was more important than saving documents on art ownership.
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But some analysts have suggested his surrender was his last resort and only chance of staying alive after splits within the M23 rebels, the BBC's Anna Holligan in The Hague says.
Down in Chiapas, where pesos are few, reasons for celebration fewer and bail-outs for those who lack either fewer still, humankind has had to worry about something more basic: staying alive.
Staying alive meant having the things around me that gave me support - my wife, my kids, my friends, my faith, but the music, man, I cannot tell you how recuperative the power of music is, for me.
That alone produces an extraordinary economic distortion: between 1992 and 2000 the number of colleges in Russia increased by 75%, but many of them, education experts say, are of poor quality, there to satisfy their students' hunger for staying alive as much as their thirst for knowledge.
The police conducted a search of hospital grounds and told his family they believed Mr Fenton was alive and staying with friends.
He says that while all couples deal with nagging at some point, those who learn to reduce this type of negative communication will substantially increase their odds of staying together and keeping love alive.
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