Making a living from the rapidly changing British way of death
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Business & money: Undertakers show their wares at the industry's biggest-ever gathering.
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"Dying is a very dull, dreary affair," the late British author W. Somerset Maugham has oft been quoted as saying. He obviously didn't live in the Anna Nicole Smith era.
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It would be a lot easier to enjoy your life if there weren't so many things trying to kill you every day. Shadowed by peril as we are, you would think we'd get pretty good at distinguishing the risks likeliest to do us in from the ones that are statistical long shots. But you would be wrong, and it's almost certainly something we can learn to do better.
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Breast cancer cases have soared in the last three decades in England - but death rates are reducing.
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Where do you bury the survivors? A couple of years ago, the American Cancer Society gaily reported that cancer survival rates have been improving dramatically and steadily. A few weeks ago, Cancer Research UK announced a similarly sunny prognosis for the public at large: UK survival rates have doubled in 30 years. Yes, we are all "surviving" longer with cancer, the experts can assure us.â¦
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Working-class people in Britain age far faster than their middle-class counterparts, researchers at a London hospital have said.
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LONDON -- To get an extra 14 years of life, don't smoke, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, exercise regularly and drink alcohol in moderation. That's the finding of a study that tracked about 20,000 people in the United Kingdom.
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Making money in a different world than Wall Street.
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BEIJING, Dec. 22 -- The common perception that terminally ill people can hold fast to life is just an illusion, a recent study showed.
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Rising numbers of immigrants in Britain are Anglicising their names or changing them to everyday British ones, The Sunday Times newspaper reported.
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Â· Lord Owen claims officials knew of hepatitis risk Â· 1,700 dead and many terminally ill after blunder
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The number of people in the UK dying from alcohol-related problems is continuing to rise, latest figures show.
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A Swiss group may have helped more people bypass the UK ban on euthanasia than previously thought.
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Life & style: A government study says modern life has Britain sleepwalking towards an obesity crisis.
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COTTENHAM, England -- A brutal killing, cigarette smuggling, a tax revolt, and a human rights dispute -- the last things one would expect to find in an English village.
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A thinktank of British scientists has come up with a new way of quickening the national intellect - a brain-taxing spin on the old formula of 100 things to do before you die.
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A survival guide for Boomers disrupted by death, divorce or financial difficulty.