Flush harder.
Gulf Daily News (Bahrain) reports:
Arafat "is still alive. He is not clinically dead. There is no brain death, but his condition is deteriorating," his Jordanian doctor Ashraf Al Kurdisaid. "Because there has been no diagnosis, we don't know what's wrong with him".
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=95839&Sn=WORL&IssueID=27230