Born Dead or Alive? Revisiting the Definition of Stillbirths in Norway by Hilde Leikny Sommerseth

“…Since 1947 there has been a common understanding among Norwegian historians and demographers that stillbirths registered in the country prior to 1839 included infants who were born alive but died within 24 hours. This paper shows that a revision of this definition is necessary. …”
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Socialism and the Will to Fail A Critical Review of the Book Socialism: A Failed Idea That Never Dies by Morteza Bahrani

“…This article is based on a review of Socialism: A Failed Idea That Never Dies (by Kristian Niemietz). Where Niemietz believes that the idea of socialism is still alive despite its successive failures, I will argue that the problem is not that the "ideas" are dead or alive. …”
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Avant la vida : aux origines de la légende de Jaufre Rudel, grand amour ou petite mort ? Les témoignages de Rofian et de Pétrarque by Roy Rosenstein

“…He places Jaufre among the unhappy troubadours for he had set out to die and did not live to see his distant lady. Unlike Rofian and Petrarch, it was the author of the vida who had the brilliant idea to keep the dying poet alive long enough to reach Tripoli. …”
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“No miracle cure” interface evaluation of a UK suicide prevention app in a Norwegian context by Kari Dakota Aasheim, Thea Heggeli Bråthen, Kristine Brandager Reiersen, Mimi Alexandra Erichsen, Kristina Sande Storevik, Anne Lund

“…Background 600 Norwegians die by suicide annually. Self-help apps may potentially reach and support suicidal individuals, next of kin, bereaved and professionals with educational information, access to suicide emergency help, hotlines, and coping tools. …”
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Suicide from a Holistic Point of View by Søren Ventegodt, Joav Merrick

“…The choice of life and dead is real, since responsibility for life is necessary in order to live life and even the best physician cannot keep a patient alive, who deep inside wants to die. In this chapter, we present parts of a story of a young girl who had experienced child sexual abuse. …”
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The Effect of Corona Dormancy on the Physiological Stress and Main Nutritional Components in the Transport of Trachinotus ovatus During Survival by Siwei LIU, Jiamei ZHONG, Xiuping FAN, Xiaoming QIN, Jian SHEN, Wenqi XU

“…Fishing exerts high stress on the organism, and they easily die in low temperature environments (< 13 ℃). The difficulty of keeping the fish alive and transporting is also the main reason live fish are difficult to find in markets. …”
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Impact of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Implantation of Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump on the Outcome of an Acute Total Obstruction of the Left Main Coronary Artery by Hamza Hamayel, Yahya Ismail, Sajed Majadla, Yousef Hamshari, Yunis Daralammouri

“…Acute total occlusion of the left main coronary artery (LMCA) is a fatal event; most patients die before reaching hospitals. Few of them reach the hospital alive. …”
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Predictive models and determinants of mortality among T2DM patients in a tertiary hospital in Ghana, how do machine learning techniques perform? by Godsway Edem Kpene, Sylvester Yao Lokpo, Sandra A. Darfour-Oduro

“…Conclusion This study found that all in-patients with sepsis died. Nephropathy was the identified significant predictor of T2DM mortality. …”
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The Use of Iliac Stem Prosthesis for Acetabular Defects following Resections for Periacetabular Tumors by Massimiliano De Paolis, Alessio Biazzo, Carlo Romagnoli, Nikolin Alì, Sandro Giannini, Davide Maria Donati

“…Results and Discussion. Sixteen patients died of their disease, three were lost to follow-up, four are alive with disease, and twenty-two are alive with no evidence of disease. …”
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Development of Sciatic Neuropraxia following Abdominal Surgery in 3 Giant Breed Dogs by Laura Marti, Julia P. Sumner

“…All three patients received physical rehabilitation with varying degrees of success. Two patients died of unrelated causes within a year of their initial presentation. …”
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Outcomes of Patients Who Have Do Not Resuscitate Status prior to Being Admitted to an Intensive Care Unit by Debjit Saha, Carlos Moreno, Marc Csete, Elizabeth Kury Perez, Luigi Cubeddu, David Farcy, Steven Henry, Zachary Glazer, Lisa A. Moreno-Walton, Robert C. Goldszer

“…Sixteen (45.7%) of the patients died, compared to a 5.4% mortality rate for all patients admitted to our ICU during this period (p<0.001). …”
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A Case Report of Melanoma as Acute Mastoiditis in a 10-Month-Old Female Child by Konstantina Chrysouli, Michael Tsakanikos, Sofia Stamataki

“…During her pregnancy, she presented with a recurrence of the disease and died 3 months after delivery. The 10-month-old female child presented with a recurrent retroauricular oedema on the left side. …”
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Christ's crucifixion as a medico-historical event by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…Although the two robbers who were crucified with Christ were apparently still alive when He died, they were dispatched shortly afterwards by crurifragium. …”
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The Depersonalized as Vanishing Hero and Heroine in Yorùbá Moral Placards by Olatunde Bayo Lawuyi

“…Ọjọ́ a bá kú là ń dère, èèyàn ò sunwọ̀n láàyè (It is on the day one dies that one becomes an idol; no one is appreciated when alive). …”
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Primary Pericardial Mesothelioma: A Rare Entity by Mohit Godar, Jianhua Liu, Pengguo Zhang, Yang Xia, Qinghai Yuan

“…The diagnosis was established after surgery by histological and immunohistochemical studies. The patient remained alive and free of disease for about 24 months; however, due to rapid local recurrence, the patient died 27 months after the surgical treatment.…”
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki at 65 – A Reflection by Norimatsu Satoko

“…On countless occasions this year, sixty-five years after the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, I have heard and read that hibakusha (atomic-bomb survivors) are dying away, and that we need to eliminate nuclear weapons from the face of the earth, for the future of humanity, to be sure, but also so that their dying wishes are fulfilled. …”
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Clinical and Epidemiological Factors Associated with Mortality in Parkinson’s Disease in a Brazilian Cohort by Gustavo Costa Fernandes, Mariana Peixoto Socal, Artur Francisco Schumacher Schuh, Carlos R. M. Rieder

“…During a mean follow-up of 4.71 years (range 1–10), 43 (20.9%) of the 206 patients died. Those who died had higher mean age at disease onset than those still alive at the last follow-up (67.7 years versus 56.3 years; p<0.01). …”
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Characteristics of the obstetric patient in critical stage in Cienfuegos province. by Bárbara Lucía Cabezas Poblet, Yoel Valle, María Antonia Cabezas Poblet, Esteban Hernández Barrios, Rolando T. Espín González

“…The major amounts of patients were discharged alive. Only 8 % died. There was a predominance of direct maternal death, highlighting among them haemorrhage and hypertension in pregnancy.…”
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Factors Influencing Survival Status of HIV/AIDS after HAART in Huzhou City, Eastern China by Meihua Jin, Zhongrong Yang, Jing Li, Xiaoqi Liu, Zhenqian Wu

“…A total of 1812 participants were included in this study, of which 1716 were still alive (survival group) and 96 had died (death group). …”
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Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma to the Testis: A Clinicopathologic Analysis of Five Cases by Gang Wang, Chen Zhou, Carlos F. Villamil, Alan So, Ren Yuan, John C. English, Edward C. Jones

“…One patient is alive with additional metastatic lesions 13 months after orchiectomy. …”
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