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Definition of Death

Death

  1. The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
  2. Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.
  3. Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
  4. Cause of loss of life.
  5. Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
  6. Danger of death.
  7. Murder; murderous character.
  8. Loss of spiritual life.
  9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death.

Death Quotations

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da Vinci

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
Jim Morrison
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Death Translations

death in Afrikaans is dood
death in Dutch is dood, overlijden, sterfgeval
death in German is Tod
death in Italian is morte
death in Latin is excessum, mors mortis, letum
death in Portuguese is morte
death in Spanish is muerte

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