{daily.experience} Deadlines

Although the name suggests that a missed deadline would cause some sort of death, experience has it that nothing very important happens when it comes to academic deadlines. You may not get a paper published, or you may have to ask the editor for an extended deadline, which is quite common in academia.

In other contexts, missing some specific sorts of deadlines may eventually result in permanent casualties. To give you a glimpse of what I mean, just imagine a jobless husband when he is given a hard deadline to find a job by his wife. Avoid missing deadlines of such nature at all costs (legally, of course).