His medical workups are lengthy. Every orifice has been subjected to endoscopy at least once, most of them annually. He has had countless computed tomographic scans, magnetic resonance imaging scans, and one scan by positron-emission tomography -- all which were normal. He has had one biopsy of his thyroid and two of his prostate. He regularly gets profiles of his blood and urine chemistry. At no time has any test or procedure yielded a positive or abnormal result that remainded abnormal when the test was repeated......Escaping disease in the 1990s is very serious business Meader, CK. The last well person. N Engl J Med 1994:330:440-441.

All deaths were accidental or none was, for disease was just as random an accident as injury, and all die. None died prematurely, for death battened on only the living, and all of those , at any age. Wherever the body was, there would eagles gather... It was all the same and predictable except in detail, whether a heart collapsed and seized in an old woman, or a runaway buggy crushed a growing boy; the people took the boy's death harder, for they longed to have him with them longer, and to see him grown and fruitful. They were not ready for him to die, but they knew for a fact that death was real. Death was ready to take people of any size, always, and so was the broad earth ready to receive them. A child's death was a heartbreak -- but it was no outrage, no freak, nothing not in the contract and not really early, just soon. Dillard, A. The Living. 1993.