1. pass away - Verb
2. pass away - Phrase
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
go out of existence
Source: WordNetLoveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower. William Cullen Bryant
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off. William Henry Harrison
For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away. William Blake
The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut. Bion of Borysthenes
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away. Zhuangzi
Woman's beauty, the forest echo, and rainbows, soon pass away. German Proverb