Natural death

No reports were located regarding death in humans that could be associated with acute-, intermediate,- or chronic-duration dermal exposure to americium. An explosion and accidental exposure of a 64-year-old man to 1-5 Ci (37-185 GBq) of241 Am was followed by immediate treatment to reduce contamination to approximately 6 mCi (222 MBq) and to 1 mCi (37 MBq) after the first day (Thompson 1983 Toohey and Kathren 1995). Survival was likely the result of intense and long-term chelation therapy, such as with diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA). The patient lived until natural death 11 years after the accident (see Section 3.2.3.2 for more detailed information regarding this accidental exposure and subsequent treatment and follow-up). 

We can model this behaviour with a set of three reactions and their differential equations, (a) In the first reaction the sheep are breeding. Note, that there is a constant supply of grass and this reaction could go on forever. As it is written, this reaction violates the law of conservation of mass, it is only an empirical rate law. In a second reaction (b), wolves eat sheep and breed themselves. The third reaction (c) completes the system, wolves have to die a natural death. 

Hamster. Groups of 65-80 male or female Syrian golden hamsters, 12 weeks of age, were exposed by whole-body inhalation to 15 pg/m di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate vapour (> 99% pure) for 24 h per day on five days per week until natural death. Total exposure over the lifetime was 7-10 mg/kg bw. No difference in survival was seen between controls and the di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate-treated groups. Median survival in controls was 709 days in males and 507 days in females and that in treated animals was 703 days in males and 522 days in females. Tumour incidence was not increased in di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate-treated hamsters (Schmezer et al., 1988). [The Working Group noted the low concentration and that it was selected to simulate occupational exposure.]... 

In another experiment, 37-40 mice per group were given one, two or four injections of 8 mg/kg bw 1,2-dimethylhydrazine (calculated as base) and the mice lived until their natural death. The incidence of epithelial kidney tumours was 5.3%, 5.0%, 55.3% and 64.9% after 0,1,2 and 4 injections, respectively. All kidney tumours in the control group or after one injection of 1,2-dimethylhydrazine were small incidental adenomas, while half of the kidney tumours after two or four injections were fatal (Turusov et al., 1990). One male receiving four injections of 1,2-dimethylhydrazine developed a nephroblastoma, a tumour which is exceedingly rare in mice (Turusov, 1992). 

Groups of BD IX rats sex not specified] received a single subcutaneous injection of 40 mg/kg bw 1,2-dimethylhydrazine at the age of one day (11 rats), 10 days (7 rats) or 30 days (13 rats). The rats lived until their natural death. Among 11 rats treated at one day of age, one developed a colon carcinoma, with no dysplasia or hyperplasia in other rats. Among rats treated at the age of 10 days, 3/7 developed 4 colon carcinomas. One rat had a dysplasia and another had a hyperplasia. Four of 13 rats treated at the age of 30 days developed 13 carcinomas and three rats developed carcinomas of the small bowel. Six rats had dysplastic and four rats hyperplastic colon lesions. One rat had a dysplastic lesion and one a hyperplastic lesion of the small bowel (Martin et al., 1974). 

Shatunovsky (1980) suggested a system of biochemical approaches for taking the maximum number of fish from commercial stocks in northern seas without exhausting the populations. He consulted data about somatic and generative increase in a number of age groups, the sex ratio and the natural death rate. A mathematical model of fish stock exploitation was created by... 

Normal concentration camps, i.e., work camps, where executions - and, according to a few authorities, gassings on a small scale - are alleged to have taken place, but where most of the victims are said to have died natural deaths, i.e., in particular, from disease and exhaustion. 

The figures for liquidations and executions at Sachsenhausen were separated from those relating to inmates having died natural deaths. See C. Mattogno, ibid. 

From March 15, 1943, to October 30, 1944, ca. 50,000 registered inmates died a natural death in the camp. Assuming that their corpses were cremated in proportion to the days of activity and the number of muffles of the crematoria (crematoria II III = 86%, crematoria IV V = 14%), this means that ca. 43,000 corpses were cremated in crematoria II III and ca. 7,000 in crematoria IV V. In case of 20 days of activity of the cremation ovens (see table chapter 7.4.), the cremation of these bodies required thus ... 

This total corresponds to (376,600 = 628,500 x 100=) 59.9% of the total supplies during this time, a percentage that is very close to that calculated above for the oven at Gusen (64.4%). The quantity of coke delivered to the crematoria was therefore full compatible with a discontinuous cremation of the corpses of the registered inmates who had died a natural death. 

In a population-based retrospective case-control study performed in the Integrated Primary Care Information project, a longitudinal observational database, the use of neuroleptic drugs, particularly haloperidol, was associated with a significant increase in the risk of sudden death (adjusted OR = 5.0 95% Cl = 1.6, 15 for neuroleptic drugs as a whole adjusted OR = 5.6 95% Cl = 1.6,19 for haloperidol number of cases and controls 775 and 6297 respectively mean ages 71 and 69 years respectively) (128). Sudden death was defined as a natural death due to cardiac causes heralded by abrupt loss of consciousness within 1 hour after the onset of acute symptoms or unwitnessed, or an unexpected death of someone seen in a stable medical condition under 24 hours before with no evidence of a non-cardiac cause. For each case of sudden death, up to 10 controls were randomly drawn from the source population matched for age, sex, and practice. 

MELUSINA and MELIORA — were Kings daughters in France, snatched away by Satan because they were hopelessly sinful, and transformed into spectres horrible to behold, and monstrous ghosts. The preceding is not a fictitious account. They are thought to exist with a rational soul, but a merely brute-like body, of a visionary kind, nourished by the elements and, like them, destined to pass away at the last day unless they contract a marriage with a man. Then the man himself may, perish by a natural death, while they live naturally by this nuptial union. 

The second question related to Circular No. 6 is even more interesting Was the infamous calomel circular removing an agent already dying a natural death among physicians One historian has made reference to the marked diminution in its [calomel s] use during the first two-thirds of the century and has conducted an elaborate discussion of this transformation on the medical profession.51... 

Daily Mortality Week of death or sacrifice Death or sacrifice status Natural death or sacrificed in bad condition Terminal sacrifice... 

Sexual hormones seem to be responsible for the transition from the developmental, uphill phase of life into the postdevelopmental, downhill period, characterized by the slow age-related decay of brain performance terminated by natural death (Fig. 6 in Knoll 2001). Weighty arguments speak in favor of the assumption that the slow, continuous age-related decline of enhancer regulation in the mesencephalic neurons plays a key role in the progressive decay of behavioral performances with the passing of time (see Sect. 3.5.1.1 for details). 

Due to aging, the maximum level of activation of the CNS, via the catecholaminergic system, decreases progressively with the passing of time. The blackout ( natural death ) of the integrative work of the CNS, signaled by the disappearance of an EEG, occurs when the catecholaminergic system s abil-... 

THE INTEGRATIVE WORK OF THE CNS BLACKS OUT. DISAPPEARANCE OF EEG. NATURAL DEATH ... 

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