For some, payment ends with the death of the annuitant, but others provide for payment to a spouse or other beneficiary for years afterward. The fixed-period, or period-certain, annuity guarantees payments to the annuitant for a predetermined length of time.
Medulla Oblongota. 1  The part of the brain that regulates basic functions like heart rate, blood pressure, breathing, coughing, sneezing. 2  The part of the brain where the optic nerves cross., the point at which the optic nerves from the inside half of each eye cross over and then project to the opposite half of the brain.
It manages autonomic functions such as breathing, heart rate and blood pressure. It also controls reflex actions such as vomiting, coughing, sneezing, and swallowing. The pons or pons varolii is located in the frontal part of the brain stem, below the midbrain and above the medulla oblongata. They are located in front of the cerebellum.