Sentences with phrase «less about dying»

This book is more about family and less about dying.

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My dear friend who died in less than 18 months from aggressive breast cancer was told by the vicar to apologise to the church committee about a minor matter or «consider her future as a member» (I helped her prepare her reply and told her that she couldn't say what she wanted to say, she was insistent but I was emphatic «it's not the content....

Because, my God, though I lack the soul - zeal and the sublime integrity of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass of matter; because I know myself to be irremediably less a child of heaven than a son of earth; therefore I will this morning climb up in spirit to the high places, bearing with me the hopes and the miseries of my mother; and there — empowered by that priesthood which you alone (as I firmly believe) have bestowed on me — upon all that in the world of human flesh is now about to be born or to die beneath the rising sun I will call down the Fire.

I suggest reading more about these things and less time in the church, you too might come to see that the brain is a sophisticated organic machine and fairly clear that it can die.

This declaration limits itself, as given its assumptions and method of proceeding it was inevitable that it should, to claims of such vagueness and generality that it would be hard for anyone to disagree about them, but equally hard for anyone to get excited about them — much less to structure his life around them or be prepared to die for them.

Whatever the reason, this crucial lapse of proffered care illustrates how our society is less concerned about the suicides of terminally ill people than about the suicides of people who choose to die for other reasons.

We have only one instance of a movement in the opposite direction, Johanan ben Zakkai (died about AD 80), who doubted the mechanical aspects of ritual defilement and purification by water, etc., but felt obliged none the less to maintain the commandments concerned simply because they were commandments: (he said to his disciples) «By your life!

After all, a very large number of embryos die of natural causes in their first month without our ever knowing about them, much less grieving for them.

His Hastings Center has also developed troubling guidelines for the care of the dying, guidelines that are less than careful about respecting those at the end of their lives.

But this statement is less reassuring since a careful British study found that if a mother was X-rayed during pregnancy, the child is about twice as likely to die of a malignant disease before its 10th birthday.11 Harrison Brown summarizes the problem:

We may guess that he reigned for not less than twenty years, and that he died about 1000 B.C.

Christena Cleveland Associate professor of reconciliation studies, Bethel University, St. Paul, Minnesota «The church needs less Niebuhrs (privileged folks who talk about justice) and more Bonhoeffers (privileged folks who live & die for justice).»

He died at the age of thirty - nine, after about two years of imprisonment, just several days before his prison camp was liberated by the Allies, and less than a month before the conclusion of the war in Europe.

I don't hear condemnations about incidents like what happened at a hospital around here less than a year ago — a woman had an intestine nicked during a completely unnecessary c / s and died three days later.

The ABSOLUTE risk that she gets in an accident (including single car accidents where no one else is involved) if she drives drunk is about 20 times less than her baby dying in childbirth.

Did you know, for example, that in my 8 mile drunken drive home last night, I was about 50 times less likely to die than you were in your homebirth?

And that isn't even talking about the chance of someone (anyone — driver, innocent bystander) dying, which is somewhere on the order of 1000 times less likely (for every 1 million people who drink and drive, 2 people will end up dead (most likely the driver)-RRB-.

A new review of recent research studies shows that infants who were breastfed were about 60 % less likely to die from SIDS than infants who didn't receive any breast milk.

When asked whether «society should let him die,» Paul, a physician, no less, unflinchingly answered: «That's what freedom is all about — taking your own risks.»

The expenses upheaval of 2009 means that many dying swans are already dead, so that the Coalition need worry less about unhappy incumbents than previous governments.

Suozzi's voice cracked as he began talking about his father, Joseph Suozzi, a former Glen Cove mayor and city court, state Supreme Court and appellate court judge who died at age 95 on Oct. 16, less than a month before his son was elected to Congress.

An average of at least 20g of nut consumption was also associated with a reduced risk of dying from respiratory disease by about a half, and diabetes by nearly 40 percent, although the researchers note that there is less data about these diseases in relation to nut consumption.

This meant they were about 15 % less likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke or die from cardiovascular disease.

Marmots are hunted by foxes, coyotes and, to a lesser extent, bears; about 50 percent of marmots die in their first year of life.

Over the course of about 20 years, women who drank three or more glasses of milk per day were almost twice as likely to die as those who drank less than one, other things being equal.

1 in 5: And even though you're a lot less likely to die of breast cancer these days, a New England Journal of Medicine article contends that we're pulling the trigger too early on treatment: For every one case of a small tumor caught early that would have been a health threat, about five essentially harmless tumors also receive the same treatment.

In 2011, the Harvard School of Public Health reported that in a 22 - year study of nearly 48,000 men, those drinking six or more cups daily were about 60 percent less likely to die from prostate cancer.

Indeed, the root mass of the transgenic rice weighed about 35 % less than that of the conventional variety, which means that microbes have less to eat after the plants die.

Although thinking about dying can cause considerable angst, new research suggests that the actual emotional experiences of the dying are both more positive and less negative than people expect.

The girl's lineage had less time to accumulate mutations, and the «missing evolution» suggests she died about 80,000 years ago, although the date is tentative, says co-author David Reich, a population geneticist at Harvard University.

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

Out of 3,635 people surveyed about their health and reading habits, bookworms were 20 percent less likely to die over the next 12 years — even after researchers controlled for factors such as gender, education, and cognitive ability.

People who ate the most fiber (about 25 grams a day for women and 30 grams for men) were 22 % less likely to die compared to those who consumed the least fiber (10 grams per day for women and 13 grams for men).

This statistic, from 2014 (the most recent year for which solid data is available), is heartbreaking yet also encouraging: It's about a quarter of the number of people who died of HIV / AIDS in 1995, when mortality reached an all - time high and dramatically less than the 21,601 estimated deaths from HIV / AIDS in 2009.

Men with the biggest girths (about 40.4 inches or more) were 2.05 times more likely to die during the study than men with waists that were less than 33.9 inches.

People who are physically active for about 7 hours a week have a 40 percent lower risk of dying early than those who are active for less than 30 minutes a week.

«If you have too much sodium and too little potassium, it's worse than either one on its own,» said Dr. Thomas Farley, New York City's health commissioner, who has led efforts to get the public to eat less salt... «Potassium may neutralize the heart - damaging effects of salt,» said Dr. Elena Kuklina, one of the study's authors at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention... The research found people who eat a lot of salt and very little potassium were more than twice as likely to die from a heart attack as those who ate about equal amounts of both nutrients.

Sleeping less than 5 hours a night increases your chances of dying by about 15 % [xvii].

Leave your house every day 30.11.2017 Healthy lifestyle - longer life with less disability towards the end 03.11.2017 1998: walk a couple of kilometres a day and halve your chance of dying 13.10.2017 Longevity strategy: keep up your DHEA, testosterone and IGF - 1 levels 02.08.2017 The anti-aging effect of a simple relaxation exercise 01.08.2017 Eat a handful of nuts every day and you'll live almost two years longer 22.07.2017 Coffee is healthy, but not caffeine 15.07.2017 Live two years longer with extra vitamin E 14.07.2017 Potassium rich diet protects against stroke and reduces mortality risk 11.07.2017 Meta - analysis: you can reduce your mortality risk by a factor of 5 through your diet 07.07.2017 Subjective age says more about chance of serious illness than objective age 28.04.2017 Animal study: half cup of green tea daily is life extending 15.04.2017 Delay aging without strict diet: supplement with ketones 05.04.2017 The gene that gets you to 100 and still healthy reacts to diet 04.04.2017 Conflictive and stressful relationships are fatal 30.03.2017 Slow reactions?

The original Adventist Health Study, involving 20,000 men and women, found that those who drank five or more glasses of water daily had about half the risk of dying from heart disease compared to those who drank two glasses or less.

First, they found that, in any given year, the average Facebook user was about 12 percent less likely to die than someone who doesn't use the site.

I was dying to find out more after hearing you were about to make the post about scoring designer pieces for less!

Die - hard fans will be thrilled with the extensive interviews and concert footage; as a more casual fan, after an hour I had learned almost everything I ever wanted to know about the man and was ready for the filmmakers to wrap it up — I was shocked to realize I was less than halfway through the movie.

He talks about how his reasons for joining Starfleet were much less heroic and proud as his late father, wracked it seems with more self - doubt than we've seen before; perhaps facing down Khan and almost dying quelled some of the hubris that led to his recklessness in both previous movies.

«Self / Less» - July 10 Ryan Reynolds stars in this thriller about a wealthy, dying man who pays to have his consciousness transferred into a younger body.

After eight years together, she wants to get married and have a baby, but Tobey is too emotionally arrested (he has a Sportscenter cell phone ring) and freaked out by the vague notion that «everyone dies someday» to entertain a serious conversation period, much less one involving a discussion about commitment.

That could also be said of the viewers, who, as «Free Fire» becomes more monotonously depraved, may find themselves caring less and less about who lives and who dies.

Like the new entries in the Star Wars franchise, it's all about passing the baton to younger, less jaded, and mercifully more diverse new stars while giving the old stars a chance to die with dignity.

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.

Controlling for differences in vehicle weight, driver age and gender, and other factors, the researchers found that drivers of vehicles with good ratings were about 46 percent less likely to die in frontal crashes than drivers of the poor - rated vehicles they crashed into.