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  • According to this belief, not only will you be reunited with your family, but, according to the NDEs of many, its members will appear, not at their cachexic death-bed worst, but as in your most cherished memories of them.

    Russ Wellen: What if We Don't Want to be Greeted by Loved Ones at Death? 2009

  • I'm also wondering if they only hire doctors who look like McDreamy and Ellen Pompeo only a bit heavier, since her cachexic look might freak people out...who wants to practice medicine from a catwalk anyway?

    Ugly Nurses Need Not Apply Mother Jones RN 2007

  • 1. It's curious that, while women battle obesity like never before, the ideal becomes the cachexic undernourished nearly sexless female.

    "I found myself saying 'these girls don't look all that thin...'" Ann Althouse 2006

  • «link» sharen: I went to GP last week and witness the clinic sells "medicine" to cachexic looking guys. i suspect they are drug addicts.

    Planet Malaysia 2009

  • «link» sharen: I went to GP last week and witness the clinic sells "medicine" to cachexic looking guys. i suspect they are drug addicts.

    Planet Malaysia 2009

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