Think how many humans would not
die of choking to death.
Indeed, the founder of the hospice movement, the late Dame Cecily Saunders, stated that she had treated hundreds of ALS patients and not one
died of choking.
Not exact matches
«Paul was very nearly
dying —
choking to death with the gas — and I pulled him out
of line and fed him water and vinegar» to flush his eyes, recalls the Body Shop's Anita Roddick.
These measures also suggest Americans are more likely to
die from gun violence than the combined risks
of drowning, fire and smoke, stabbing,
choking on food, airplane crashes, animal attacks, and forces
of nature.
I know «he who shall not be named» literally would and will
choke and
die before admitting or apologizing to an iota
of what occurred, but you others?
He read about the firefighters who marched up the smoke -
choked stairwells
of the World Trade Center, though many knew they could
die; the beloved priest killed while giving last rites as the twin towers collapsed; the passengers on hijacked planes who called their families one last time to say, «I love you.»
Dutch physician and author Bert Keizer has described his response when a nursing home resident
choked on her food: he shot her full
of morphine and waited for her to
die.
I'm just glad he will never get the chance and will likely
die of old age
choking on his bitter hate and vitriol and unwarrented righteous indignation.
A mother may continuously keep on getting ideas such as the baby
dying when asleep, thoughts
of drowning when bathing the baby, thoughts that the baby can be poisoned when feeding or that the baby could
choke anytime.
Maybe your children can't eat lollipops at age 5 because
of your parenting, but mine ate them happily at young ages without * you can
die if you
choke on it!
The New York City PBA has been at odds with Mayor Bill de Blasio in recent months over police tactics and criminal justice reform measures sought after the death
of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who
died after a
choke hold administered by a police officer.
The nation has already overtaken the U.S. as the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter largely because
of the more than three billion metric tons
of coal it burns annually — and several thousand miners
die each year digging up the dirty black rock to feed China's energy needs, not to mention the health toll taken by
choking air pollution caused by coal burning in the Middle Kingdom, estimated by the World Bank to cost the country $ 100 billion a year in medical care.
Patients ultimately
die of heart failure, pneumonia or
choking triggered by the disorder.
Forty - eight infants
died because
of crib bumper suffocation, the study found, while 146 babies had injuries, such as near -
choking, strangling or entrapment.
I've actually had someone email me that they hope I «
choke on a piece
of meat and
die and then catch fire in a fur coat» because I posted this recipe.
In an earlier life, years before he became a big - time filmmaker, Gore Verbinski played guitar in a string
of Los Angeles punk bands, banging out in - your - face songs with titles like «Hate You,» «
Choke on It» and «I Wan na
Die Like Elvis Did.»
Students spend a total
of 54 BILLION hours in public schools in every year, and Americans» odds
of dying in a mass shooting in any location are about 4 times less than the odds
of choking to death on food.
It would «kind
of» turn over a second, then
die (as expected), and that was my cue to put it on half
choke and start it.
I have
choked on a grain
of rice in Libya, while my companions, unaware
of the gravity
of my plight (or so I tell myself), light - heartedly discussed how Agatha Christie's booksales went up immediately she
died... I have bitten back frustration, looking at the fine stone theatres in Syria, knowing they were too late for me, and that because they are so fine, nobody has ever explored what earlier versions might have been on the spot.
I'm impressed that you grabbed your dog's leash and
choked the pit bull off
of your dog, you saved your dog's life as pits have been bred to lack bite inhibition and do not let go until they or their opponent
die.
Your neighbor gave you a leftover bag
of puppy food from when their Giant Schnauzer was slightly less gargantuan, but after looking at the size
of the kibble, you fear your little demon dog may
die of asphyxiation from
choking on it.
If it was possible to
choke and
die because
of nostalgia, this game would have done it.
Plastics are
choking the life our
of the oceans and with climate change, the oceans are
dying.
Science plays no role in these computations, only echoes
of a
dying breed
of climate warriors, gasping,
choking on their own words, eyes strained for a vision
of death and destruction, not evident.
In February, the American Academy
of Pediatrics released a policy statement on Prevention
of Choking Among Children that identified the hot dog as the food on which children are most likely to
choke and
die.
In a policy statement released by the AAP in 2012, the AAP noted that one child
dies every five days as a result
of choking on food.