"Leave or die" notes began appearing on their doorsteps.
Staff writer Clay Nolan, reporting from the Indiana town of Terre Haute where McVeigh is due to die, notes his last meal - two pints of mint chocolate chip ice cream - and his calm demeanour.
Despite antibiotics and other treatments, about 25% of sepsis patients die, notes infectious disease researcher Steven Opal of Brown University, who wasn't involved with the study.
Gorelick would also like to make sure that no dangerous levels of radiation are released as the bacteria die, noting that some buildup was seen in the kidney tissue of the mice treated in the new study.
"Heirs and beneficiaries get restless while waiting for a pet to die," notes Hirschfeld.
There was a little tremble on Mr. Beaver's last, dying note.
Occasionally, to sustain a dying note, he will use vibrato, but only a trace of it.
Along with weirdly affecting accounts of the mangled (voiceless, they manage a sustained hiss and hum; very little moves except their eyes; and a patient with a hand and not much else uses it to scrawl a dying note to a long-ago lover), Griesemer portrays the hyperactive oddities of a society that is at once isolated, hierarchical and formless.
"But what if your goat gets sick and dies?" notes Ms. Sossouvi.
"Chickens are dying," noted an American speaker at an event put on by Argus Media, an energy-information group, during the International Petroleum Week in London.
Turkey contends that Armenians were not the victims of systematic killings and argues that no more than 500,000 Armenians died, noting that many Turks also perished during those years of war.
