There have been Alzheimer's deaths* since George Bush vetoed the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act and Congress failed to override that veto.

Each coffin below represents 150 lives that might have been saved by the research they refused to allow.

*Figures based on the preliminary 2004 mortality stats though rounded up from 7.5 deaths an hour to 8 to keep the numbers whole.

Coffin image, idea, and a smidge of javascript taken from this page with deaths in the current Israel-Lebanon conflict and this page with American and Iraqi deaths. The javascript doing the calculating was modified by me from this ultimate age calculator code.