Sabatino, the lawyer, says that patients can say they would not want to be kept alive with a feeding tube in every state.
And while cases in women will far exceed those in men, the charity says that by 2040 fewer than half (47%) of women with lung cancer will be alive at least five years from diagnosis compared with three-fifths (59%) of men.
If you want tradition to be alive, you have to keep doing things with it.
Maybe Pendleton, who was playing in a park with her friends, would still be alive.
"What really brings children with certain disabilities alive is to be able to hold the animals and stroke them, " Mr Laister said.
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Paul Jacobs, 23, from Stourbridge, says he is "lucky to be alive" after being injured in August 2009 while serving with 2nd Battalion The Rifles.
The move also allowed clergy to be made bishops who are married to divorcees with a partner still alive.
"With a bit of luck I'll still be alive today, " were the words Alex Dodds said before a vital operation to remove a brain tumour.
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So too would allowing the value of gifts of artworks, made while the donor is still alive, to be claimed against income tax, as is the case with gifts of quoted shares or property.
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Even so, no-one seems to think it strange that the country's minister of culture, Aurelie Filippetti, should be having meetings with management and union representatives in an effort to keep the firm alive.
Moreover, although Steve Jobs thought that he had cracked the TV problem before he died, even if he were still alive it is unlikely he would be able to repeat the coup he pulled off with the music industry.
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Sound off with your own opinion and, if you know something needs to be done, keep the conversation alive.
With the fear of the unknown or the unaccomplished also comes the reminder of what it is to be alive.
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