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Activities such as going out with friends or eating in restaurants, which should be enjoyable, turned into stressful, potentially life-threatening experiences.

"It will make it easier to get an abortion, say, for an ectopic pregnancy, and I do think eliminating this 'life-threatening physical condition' language could help at the margins," Portuondo said in a phone interview.

Before the January firestorm that devastated parts of Los Angeles County, weather service officials warned residents and emergency responders about potentially life-threatening winds that could fuel extreme fire behavior.

Then, on 28 October, Ms Hoskins states she "came into contact with chocolate which had been placed in a staff-only storage cupboard and suffered a life-threatening anaphylactic shock".

An Australian man is also in a life-threatening condition after being swept out to sea, and was airlifted to hospital with serious head injuries.