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'Will to Live' Allowed Some to See 2000

(Associated Press, January 16, 2000)

NEW YORK - The city's death rate jumped in the first week of January, suggesting to experts some terminally ill patients held onto life just long enough to see the year 2000 arrive.

"The will to live can be pretty powerful," said Robert N. Butler, founder and president of the International Longevity Center.

Preliminary numbers from New York's Department of Health show 1,791 people died in the city in the first week of 2000 - a 50.8 percent increase from the 1,187 deaths for the same period last year and 46 percent more than the 1,226 deaths in the first week of 1998, The New York Times reported on Saturday.

"It's pretty well established that people who are seriously ill will hang on to reach significant events, whether they are birthdays, anniversaries or religious holidays," said Richard Suzman, an associate director of the National Institute on Aging in Bethesda, Md.

"In this case, making it into the next century or millennium certainly counts as that."

The increase was not caused by this year's influenza virus, because the flu has been occurring at normal levels in the city, said Health Department spokesman John Gadd.

National statistics are not yet available, and a spokesman for the city's health department said such data would take considerable time to analyze.

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