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the one appointment nobody schedules but everybody keeps, perfectly on time and impossibly late
means The permanent end of life — the point at which a living thing stops functioning for good.
from From Old English 'dēaþ,' rooted in the Proto-Germanic '*dauþuz,' itself built from a verb meaning 'to die' (a cousin of the same source behind 'dead' and 'die'). The trail runs back to a Proto-Indo-European root '*dʰew-,' carrying a sense of passing away or fading. The '-th' ending is the old noun-maker that also gives us 'breadth' from 'broad' and 'length' from 'long' — turning the act of dying into the state of being dead.
- cell turnover
- You replace most cells, dying piecemeal your whole life
- hearing last
- Hearing may be the final sense to fade
- rare exit
- Roughly 0.007% of all humans ever are alive now
- legal limbo
- Brain death and heart death are separate definitions
- nail myth
- Hair and nails don't grow; skin retracts
black death — plague that killed 75-200 million people in eurasia, 1347-1353
mount everest — 290+ confirmed deaths since 1921, highest death rate of any mountain
titanic sinking — 1,500 people died when ship hit iceberg in 1912
spanish flu pandemic — influenza killed 50-100 million people worldwide in 1918-1920