Well, the reason for thinking otherwise, the reason for not being utterly dismissive of this suggestion, is that when people get ill, terminally ill, it often seems to take them by surprise.

其他的想法产生的原因，人们没有完全摒弃这个假设的原因，是当人们得病，病入膏肓时，这通常让人措手不及。

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Ms Fenton said their letters detailed how the girl's father, Henry, had been "with his daughter when she died after being taken ill very suddenly".

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"We were shell-shocked when Yasmin was diagnosed after being very ill for two months but we knew we wanted to do something positive with what was happening to us, " Ms Attwood said.

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Floodwaters had isolated the hospital, where about 312 patients -- many of them critically ill -- were being treated when Katrina hit.

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