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Evidence indicates cancer patients unable to intentionally postpone death for significant events

lly significant decrease of deaths observed in the week before the event."

"Although we cannot eliminate the possibility that a small number of dying cancer patients have the ability to control the timing of their death, the proportion would have to be much smaller than that previously reported," the authors write. " analysis of thousands of cancer deaths shows no pattern to support the concept that 'death takes a holiday.'"


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