Claim: A 26-year-old man named Alex Smith of Minneapolis died because he had aged out of his mother's health insurance and couldn't afford insulin.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Christian Science
text: after he died of peritonitis. The conviction was overturned; the appellate court ruled that the couple had "reasonably believed" they could rely on Christian Science prayer without being prosecuted. The first time the church was held liable (overturned on appeal) was in 1993 after 11-year-old Ian Lundman died of hyperglycaemia in Minnesota in 1989. The church sent a Christian Science nurse to sit with him; doctors testified that he could have been saved by an insulin injection up to two hours before his death. The mother and stepfather were charged with manslaughter, but the charges were dismissed. The boy's father

title: Susan Smith
text: Susan Smith Susan Leigh Vaughan Smith (born September 26, 1971) is an American convict who was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after serving 30 years for filicide. On July 22, 1995, Smith was convicted of the 1994 drowning deaths of her two sons, three-year-old Michael Daniel Smith and 14-month-old Alexander Tyler Smith. The case gained international attention because of Smith's false claim that an African-American man had kidnapped her sons during a carjacking. Her defense attorneys, David Bruck and Judy Clarke, called expert witnesses to testify that she suffered from mental health issues that impaired

title: Elizabeth Wettlaufer
text: patient with enough insulin to cause their death was on August 11, 2007, when she murdered James Silcox (84), a World War II veteran and father of six. Through March 2014, Wettlaufer also murdered the following patients at Caressant Care: While at Caressant Care, Wettlaufer also injected Michael Priddle (63) and Wayne Hedges (57) "with intent to murder". She confessed to two counts of attempted murder in these cases. She left employment at Caressant Care in 2014, but in part-time work at other facilities and at patients' homes, she injected three more people with insulin: Wettlaufer entered an inpatient drug

title: The Dead and the Gone
text: shortages and disease that kill millions of people in the process. Alex is forced to take care of his sisters in the absence of his mother and father and to raid dead bodies for valuables to trade for food. He struggles with his religious faith while trying desperately to survive. Alex Morales- A 17-year-old Puerto Rican boy who has to take care of his two younger sisters after a meteor hits the moon, knocking it closer to the earth, when his parents disappear. He blames himself for all of the things happening to his sisters. Near the end of the

title: Health care efficiency
text: can die at the same age after receiving successful treatment for his or her diseases (including life-threatening ones) and therefore enjoying much better health. Consider for instance a hypothetical Libyan man who died at 75 after poorly treated and long-lasting tooth problems, skin problems, gastrointestinal problems, urinary problems, joint problems, ear problems and eye problems. Then consider a hypothetical Danish man who died at the same age and had the same problems, each one of them promptly and effectively (and expensively) treated, and who was saved from cancer and myocardial infarction. The differences are striking. According to Bloomberg, however, there

title: Peter W. Smith
text: Lake Forest, Illinois. He was married to Janet; the couple had three children and three grandchildren at the time of his death. Smith died on May 14, 2017 in a hotel room in Rochester, Minnesota. He had checked into the hotel, which is near the Mayo Clinic, the day after speaking to the "Wall Street Journal". Nine days later he was found with a bag over his head that was attached to a helium source. Medical records list Smith's cause of death as "asphyxiation due to displacement of oxygen in confined space with helium." Police discovered a suicide note by

title: Charlie Smith (centenarian)
text: Charlie Smith (centenarian) Charlie Smith was a centenarian noted for claiming to be the oldest person in the United States. Smith stated that he had been born in Liberia in 1842 and kidnapped to the United States at age 12 and sold into slavery in Louisiana to a Texas rancher. Later research indicated that he had been born circa 1874 or even later. In particular, his marriage certificate, issued January 8, 1910, listed him as being 35 years old at the time. He died in Bartow, Florida in 1979, at the age of 105 (according to researchers) or 137 (according

title: Jeremy Vargas Sagastegui
text: injection at the age of 27. Jeremy Vargas Sagastegui Jeremy Vargas Sagastegui (November 1, 1970 – October 13, 1998) was convicted of three counts of aggravated first-degree murder for the drowning and beating of Kievan Sarbacher, 3, and the shooting deaths of his mother, Melissa Sarbacher, 21, and a second woman, Lisa Vera-Acevedo, 27. The killings occurred on November 19, 1995, in a mobile home in rural Finley, Washington, located east of Kennewick, where Sagastegui had been baby-sitting Sarbacher's two children. The second child, a 1-year-old girl, was unharmed. Sometime between the evening hours of November 18 and the early

title: Colin Norris
text: observation of one of your patients, Bridget Tarpey, who said 'he did not like us old women'." Referred to in the British press as the "Angel of Death", Norris was convicted of killing his victims by injecting them with high levels of insulin. Jessie McTavish, a nurse convicted and then cleared in 1974 for the murder of an 80-year-old patient with insulin, has been identified as a possible inspiration for Norris. He once attended a lecture on her case while studying at university. On 4 October 2011 new concerns were raised about the safety of Norris' conviction. Retired Professor Vincent

title: Don Smith (basketball, born 1951)
text: 21 free throw attempts. In 1980, he was inducted into the University of Dayton Hall of Fame. Smith had been on dialysis for two years and was on The Ohio State University's waiting list for a kidney donor when, after being hospitalized for two weeks with heart problems, he died on March 9, 2004 at age 52. Smith had been seriously injured in an automobile accident several months earlier, and that may have contributed to his death. His wife, Katrina, who was also injured in the accident, survived him. In 2004, Smith was named to the University of Dayton's All-Century

title: William Wensley Smith
text: of 67. A diabetic, the illness probably shortened his life. His wife Islay survived him for another 30 years. She died in 1985, at the age of 94. William Wensley Smith William Wensley Smith (1887–1955) was a Canadian who founded W.W. Smith Insurance Ltd., one of the oldest insurance brokerages in Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located in the city of Swift Current, where it had its beginnings in 1913. When William Wensley Smith, an Englishman from Woolwich, immigrated to Canada in 1903 as a teenager, he didn't have much more than the shirt on his back and a few shillings

title: Joseph Gilbert Hamilton
text: Francisco. Albert Stevens, CAL-1, had been diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer, which was later found to have been an ulcer. Stevens is significant as he is recorded as having survived the highest known accumulated radiation dose of any human. He lived 20 years after the injection until his death at 79 years of age. Simeon Shaw, CAL-2, was 4 years old at the time of injection and had been diagnosed with bone cancer. Shaw lived for 255 days post injection, with his cause of death being recorded as from bone cancer. Elmer Allen, CAL-3, was 36 at the time of

title: Sam Smith (politician)
text: legislature in 1970, being defeated by Republican Michael Ross. Smith would later attribute Ross' victory over his wife to a defection of Smith's traditional allies among the district's black leaders who were "afraid that the power in the black community was too centered on me. They knew I would be helping her [Marion] make decisions, and they didn't want me to have that kind of reach." Smith suffered from ill health in his later years and lost a leg to diabetes in 1985. He died at his home in the Seward Park neighborhood of Seattle on November 16, 1995 at

title: Burnette Chapel shooting
text: The deceased woman was identified as 38-year-old Melanie Smith. She was first shot in the face, then suffered additional gunshot wounds to the back when she attempted to flee the gunman. Six other people aged between 60 and 83 were injured by gunfire; their injuries were non-life-threatening. The suspect, Emanuel Kidega Samson, was a 25-year-old Sudanese native residing legally in the United States, having arrived as a child in 1996. He was allegedly carrying two handguns, a 9mm and a .40-caliber, and was wearing a ski mask at the time of the attack. Samson had been licensed to work as

title: Georgia v. Smith
text: Georgia v. Smith Joseph and Sonya Smith, a couple who lived in Mableton, Georgia, went on trial in February 2007 for the 2003 death of Josef Smith, their eight-year-old son. This case prompted authorities to raid the family's church in 2004 because it supports corporal punishment. Josef Smith died at a children's hospital after paramedics were called to the family's home in Mableton, an Atlanta suburb. In October 2003 the boys' parents had told authorities Josef had passed out and never regained consciousness after the family gathered in the kitchen to participate in a prayer session with their church via

title: Alex Smith (golfer)
text: sanatorium in Baltimore, Maryland. He is best known for winning the U.S. Open twice, in 1906 and again in 1910. Defeated John McDermott and MacDonald Smith in an 18-hole playoff – A. Smith 71 (−2), McDermott 75 (+2) & M. Smith 77 (+4). Smith died before the Masters Tournament was founded. NYF = Tournament not yet founded<br> NT = No tournament<br> DNP = Did not play<br> WD = Withdrew<br> "T" indicates a tie for a place<br> Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10 Alex Smith (golfer) Alexander Smith (28 January 1874 – 21 April 1930) was a Scottish-American professional

title: Andrew Smith (basketball, born 1990)
text: in one of his lungs, and he returned to the U.S. Doctors in Indianapolis initially determined he was suffering from non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and soon made a more specific diagnosis of T-cell lymphoblastic lymphoma. This type of cancer, normally found in children, has a 50-50 survival rate for that age group, but is less survivable for adults. He immediately went on a chemotherapy regimen that had to be specially calibrated for his unusually large frame. While undergoing treatment, he took a job with a leasing and financing company owned by family friends. On July 31, 2014, on his third day on

title: Mike Smith (Dave Clark Five)
text: then a 24-year-old professional diver, died in a diving accident in the Red Sea. James never surfaced after making the dive. Smith established a memorial to his son at Egypt's Blue Hole, a popular diving location, with a plaque reading, "Don’t let fear stand in the way of your dreams." Three months later, on 13 September 2003, nearing his 60th birthday, Smith was injured in an accident in his home in Spain which severely damaged his spinal cord. He tried to climb a 7 ft gate after locking himself out of his villa, fell heavily, and landed on his head.

title: Murder of Claire Tiltman
text: following her murder. However, they both died before Ash-Smith was charged and convicted. Her mother died in March 2008 at the age of 56, and her father died in September 2012 at the age of 63, both from cancer. They had no other children. Roger Tiltman, the brother of Clifford Tiltman, said that his brother and sister-in-law were racked with guilt at her killing and the stress of it drove them both to early graves. In a victim impact statement, her uncle said: "The fact they allowed her out on the night of her death caused them a massive amount

title: Georgia v. Smith
text: he was brain dead. He died a day later. Cobb County medical examiners concluded that eight-year-old Josef Smith died as a result of "acute and chronic" abuse. Police said that the parents often locked the boy in a closet and forced him to pray to a picture of Jesus. The Smiths admitted disciplining their son by striking him with a glue stick, but claimed the punishment never rose to the level of abuse. The Smiths were members of the Brentwood, Tennessee-based Remnant Fellowship Church since they joined in 2000, which grew out of church leader Gwen Shamblin's Weigh Down Workshop,