Definition of Death

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Definition of Death

Death

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.

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Death Quotations

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

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
Buddha

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
Buddha

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Albert Einstein

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Mark Twain

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Mark Twain

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
George Carlin

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
George Carlin

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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