In message , Tim Streater writes
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>> >> > Only if he was actually killed by a cancer and not one of his other
>> > conditions.
>> I think that you are making a point something like "It's okay for
>>the government to try to distort statistics and/or wriggle out of
>>liability and negligence claims if for instance the 'cause of death'
>>box was going to be filled in incorrectly as a result of an innocent
>>mistake and quite by chance the true and correct entry is the one
>>which the MOD wanted to have on the record. Extraordinary. There is
>>no sensible answer to that.
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>How do you get that out of the above? If he died from cancer, and that
>was not put in as cause of death, that's skewing the stats slightly. If
>he died from general organ failure caused by drinking a bottle of vodka
>a day for the last 40 years, then it isn't.
Surely most *high pain* diseases will end with the sufferer dying from prescribed pain relief?
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