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The Value of Death

The Lancet Voice

CHAPTER

Preventing Death From Avoidable Causes

i hope this commission can bring to the debate is that if you avoid a death from any s x wisad, that's not preventing death in itself. The way the language is toned, it kind of is framed the sense that it's been saved, and death has been defeated. You think it's infinitely deferable. And so the language is very dangerous in the way it's beguiling. It makes you feel that we've defeated another death, that person will live forever. They can't, and they won't. We don't want people dying from avoidable conditions. We want to avoid early deaths u nov"

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