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the body's final deadline, met by everyone, extended by none, refunded to the universe.
means The process of ceasing to live; the gradual or sudden shutting-down of life in a living thing.
from From Old Norse 'deyja,' to die, which slipped into Middle English as 'dien' or 'deyen' and grew the '-ing' ending that turns any verb into an ongoing act. Curiously, Old English itself preferred gentler phrases like 'steorfan' (to starve, to perish) — the blunt little word 'die' arrived with the Norse and stuck, a cousin of words for death scattered across the Germanic tongues, all tracing back to a Proto-Germanic root meaning simply to pass away.
- hearing last
- Hearing may persist after other senses fade
- surge phenomenon
- Some patients rally briefly before death, called terminal lucidity
- brain activity
- Brainwave bursts recorded seconds after the heart stops
- common phrase
- Dying people often call out for their mothers
- slow process
- Cells die at different rates, not all at once
elizabeth ii — british monarch who died september 8, 2022, after 70-year reign
queen victoria — british monarch who died january 22, 1901, after 63-year reign
titanic sinking — 1,500+ people died april 15, 1912, in north atlantic