Under the new rules, those citizens whose time is up will be given one week's notice: each will receive a violet-colored letter, a notice of termination from Death herself.
Religion, he argued, "is the result of two incurable diseases from which humankind suffers — life, from which we die, and hope, which hints that there might be more meaning to life than a termination in death".
In the base-case population, it was assumed that patients were at risk of discontinuing treatment during the first 3 years only, after which they would remain adherent to their treatment until termination or death.
Medication doses were recorded beginning on the day of MV initiation and ending at patients death, termination of MV, or day 29 of MV.
Patients were also censored for loss to follow-up, change in clinic site, termination of treatment, death, or at study end.
The OPM definition for separation includes retirement, resignation, termination, transfers, and death.
"The Mesoamerican worldview was constantly in motion, in cycles of birth and death, termination and regeneration," anthropologists William Duncan and Charles Hofling wrote in a paper published in Ancient Mesoamerica in 2011.
A detailed obstetric history was recorded including previous miscarriage, termination or perinatal death.
The main reason for early termination was patient death from disease (38; 84.4%).
Patient follow-up extended from the index date until occurrence of cardiovascular hospitalization or death, termination of database enrollment, or completion of the study period, whichever occurred first.
In the mortality analysis, person-time was calculated from study entry date to date of death, termination of health insurance coverage, or 31 December 2007.
