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death

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1. death - Noun

2. death - Verb

3. Death - Proper noun

Meaning

The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.

Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.

Cause of loss of life.

Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.

Danger of death.

Murder; murderous character.

Loss of spiritual life.

Anything so dreadful as to be like death.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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We must understand that the human person in reality does not die. Death is simply a transfer from one life to the other. Paisios of Mount Athos

One can be an atheist only until their death. After it, everyone will become believers. However, the choice of what will be after death must be made now and as soon as possible. John of Shanghai and San Francisco

Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony. Niccolò Machiavelli

I have no right to rejoice at the death of my enemy when I do not have eternal life myself. Persian Proverb

No matter how beautiful and well crafted a coffin might look, it will not make anyone wish for death. African Proverb

A coward dies a thousand times before his death. The valiant never taste of death but once. English Proverb

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