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Driven by social inequality, boys who are born in the 10 per cent most deprived areas will die 12.5 years earlier than their counterparts in the most affluent areas.
We talk about relatives and friends who die of natural causes, but folk often do not talk about those folk that they have known who have taken their own lives.
That is not unreasonable.Of course, the advantage of those harder outcomes is that they have no survey bias. If people die, they are counted in the numbers.
I am sorry about this wee bit: she said, "Mum, I don't want to die." She was only 39 years of age.We are only on this earth for an infinitesimal time, and we have first-class medical care to save lives.
I can use such junctions at Newtonhill, Portlethen, Stonehaven and Forfar; I cannot do so at Laurencekirk. People will die unless that mistake is put right.
I made it quite clear when I released Mr al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds that he might die sooner or later. The evidence that the director of health and care at the Scottish Prison Service provided was that if Mr al-Megrahi remained in a Scottish prison it was likely that he would die within three months.
They highlighted a figure that will remain in all our minds as we deal day by day with this important area of work, which is that 5,700 people die every day from HIV and AIDS. That figure reminds us how critical this area of work is.
However—this is where we must be careful—we talk about 10Mbps being unacceptable, but a very high proportion of my constituents would die for 10Mbps. The speed is maybe closer to 2Mbps; sometimes, it is 500Kbps.
Whatever happens this week, when the final deep mine in Scotland closes—I give great thanks to Liz Smith’s party for its historic role in that—the people will not die, even though the industry has gone.
Our remembering man’s inhumanity to man at its most extreme presents an opportunity for us to educate communities throughout Scotland about the tragedies that occurred in occupied Europe, which saw 12 million men, women and children die at the hands of the Nazi regime—half of them were Jewish and they died simply for being Jewish.