Morgan Freeman

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

American Actor

Mark Twain

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

American Writer

Stephen Hawking

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

English Physicist

Woody Allen

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

American Director

Plato

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Greek Philosopher

Buddha

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Leader

William Blake

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

English Poet

Confucius

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

Chinese Philosopher

Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Artist

Sigmund Freud

Austrian Psychologist

The term often carries heavy emotions like sadness or loss, so use it sensitively in conversation.

Emotional Weight

Some cultures may use euphemisms to avoid saying 'death' directly because it can be seen as too blunt.

Avoiding Directness

Can be used to signify impactful historical losses of life.

Historical Events

Can refer to the end of non-living things like ideas or eras, not just physical death.

Figurative Use

Sometimes exaggerated to express the complete failure or end of something.

Hyperbolic Language

Specifically refers to state-sanctioned execution as punishment for a crime.

Legal Context

The topic of the death penalty is controversial and can provoke strong opinions.

Controversy Alert

Used to describe the end of functioning of objects or abstract concepts.

Non-literal Meaning

Often used informally to indicate the ceasing of something's relevance or existence.

Informal

 to kill you in just the right way they really feel for you and actually that moment of death in a video game is one of the most honest it's when the creators reach out from this fictitious world and they touch your heart admittedly it's to kill you but that's probably your fault your job was to stay

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 then analyze their similarities and differences. From that information, they can learn about cultural beliefs, social norms, wars, and what caused their deaths. Today, we use these tools to answer big questions about how forces, like migration and disease, shape the modern world.

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 and from our earliest myths to the latest cinematic blockbusters, the dead keep coming back. But is resurrection really possible? And what is the actual difference between a living creature and a dead body, anyway? To understand what death is, we need to understand what life is.

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 and we'd have millions and millions of deaths. These investments offer significant benefits beyond just being ready for the epidemic. The primary healthcare, the R&D, those things would reduce global health equity and make the world more just as well as more safe.

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 So one of these will happen to all of us. The ones you may know most about are the ones that are becoming increasingly of historical sudden death. It's quite likely in an audience this size this won't happen to anybody here. Sudden death has become very rare.

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 In severe cases, the kidneys can't keep up with the resulting volumes of dilute urine. Water intoxication then occurs, possibly causing headache, vomiting, and, in rare instances, seizures or death. But that's a pretty extreme situation.

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 And at the moment of death, he shared its pain. He rubs its saliva into his own legs to relieve the agony of his burning muscles. And he gives thanks for the life he has taken, so that he may sustain the lives of his family,

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 Desire runs deep. Betrayal runs deep. But it can be healed. And some affairs are death knells for relationships that were already dying on the vine. But others will jolt us into new possibilities.

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 in the quest for glory. This constitutes his fatal flaw, or hamartia. His god complex is most clear in the line, "Life and death appear to me ideal bounds which I should first break through

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 humanity struggle against death has been our most enduring fight

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