An oft-quoted study suggests that executives would rather die than speak.

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The former foreign minister, who said on the eve of the war he would rather die than be taken into U.S. custody, had suffered two recent heart attacks.

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Or is it possible that the lists have been compiled by snarky, unscrupulous young journalists who would rather die than visit Waco or Des Moines or Traverse City, much less live there?

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The day the war started Tariq Aziz came out to prove that he hadn't been killed or hadn't defected as there were a lot of rumors around ... and he said he had said prior to that he would die rather than surrendering to U.S. forces.

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These were formerly rich people who were impoverished by government attacks and injustices, but who would prefer to die rather than beg.

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In circumstances like these, I would want to die sooner rather than later and in my own home.

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The researchers said 71% of the respondents would prefer to live 15 years in a wheelchair than die after 10 or five years in a wheelchair - but the remaining 29% said they would prefer to die earlier rather than spend 15 years in a wheelchair.

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They would rather see their citizens die or suffer than let in outsiders who might expose those with whom they come in contact to new ideas and things that could somehow undermine the reigning dictatorship.

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The oil industry has been waiting patiently for Chavez to die with the hope that whoever came next would be more interested in building value rather than destroying it.

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