Some articles on life:
... The years of potential life lost (YPLL) is a simple estimate of the number of years that a person's life was shortened due to a disease ... age 80 without that disease, then that disease has caused a loss of 15 years of potential life ... In 2004, the World Health Organization calculated that 932 million years of potential life were lost to premature death ...
Famous quotes containing the words life and/or adjusted:
“He is asleep. He knows no longer the fatigue of the work of deciding, the work to finish. He sleeps, he has no longer to strain, to force himself, to require of himself that which he cannot do. He no longer bears the cross of that interior life which proscribes rest, distraction, weaknesshe sleeps and thinks no longer, he has no more duties or chores, no, no, and I, old and tired, oh! I envy that he sleeps and will soon die.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“The treatment of the incident of the assault upon the sailors of the Baltimore is so conciliatory and friendly that I am of the opinion that there is a good prospect that the differences growing out of that serious affair can now be adjusted upon terms satisfactory to this Government by the usual methods and without special powers from Congress.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)