Saw a sudden blurb on CourtTV. “The end of an era.”
Is it confirmed?
Latest reports on BBC say that he is in a coma.
His condition just became serious.
CNN, Fox, and MSNBC all say he’s still in a coma, but is not expected to survive much longer. NPR doesn’t say anything.
Methinks it’s a false start.
Robin
A brain hemorrhage is the last I heard.
Francisco Franco is still dead, though.
Jeez, Arafat has died about four times in the past two weeks.
Talk about being indecisive! 
Estimated number of Palestinians that will within eight hours of Arafat’s death be rushed to the hospital with wounds suffered from anguish bullets fired into the air: 4
Yasser lives courtsey his wife Suha. Otherwise they would have buried him alive.
A trip to fark.com reveals…well, not much. Three headlines in the order they appeared today:
He’s just pining for the fjords.
Alive or dead – expected to make a full recovery either way.
It’s done to celebrate; it’s also done in anguish? What the hell do they do when they are bored?
Fire bullets into their enemies.
They don’t know if he’s dead or in a coma. And you thought your HMO was bad.
IANAD, but…doesn’t it generally go: heartbeat = alive, no heartbeat = dead?
I hear he’s feeling happy! He’s feeling…
bonk
Relax, people. He’ll live.
Just. To. Piss. Us. Off.
Geeze. The old murderer keeps dying and then getting better. It’s like the Grim Reaper has him on a yo-yo.
Can’t somebody just hold a pillow over his face or something? “Paging Doctor Kevorkian. Dr. Kevorkian, pick up international line 2…”
Lessee, Scuba_Ben did the parrot sketch, so…
"I'm not dead!"
“What?”
"Nothing. Here's your ninepence."
“I’m not dead!”
"He says he's not dead!"
"Yes, he is."
"I'm not!"
"He isn't?"
"Well, he will be soon. He's very ill."
"I'm getting better!"
"No, you're not. You'll be stone dead in a moment."IANAD either
My sister is an RN. She worked in cardiac ICU. As part of her training, I helped her play a game we called (morbidly) “dead or not dead.” With a pacemaker, your heart will keep beating until the battery dies. However, looking at the output graph, you can tell if there are “organic” irregularities or if it is just the mechanistic beat of the pacemaker.