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  2. List of English-language expressions related to death

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    To completely exterminate all of a kind Formal Get smoked To be killed Slang Give up the ghost [2] To die Neutral The soul leaving the body Glue factory To die Neutral Usually refers to the death of a horse Gone to a better place [10] To die Euphemistic: Heaven Go over the Big Ridge [11] To die Unknown Go bung [2] To die Informal Australian ...

  3. List of last words - Wikipedia

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    "It is a bad cause which cannot bear the words of a dying man." [17] [note 94] — Henry Vane the Younger, English politician, statesman and colonial governor (14 June 1662), prior to execution by beheading for treason "My God, forsake me not." [17] [note 95] — Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist and theologian (19 August 1662)

  4. List of last words (20th century) - Wikipedia

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    — George Stinney, African-American child and youngest American with an exact age executed by the United States (16 June 1944), on whether he had any final words before his wrongful execution via electric chair. 14-year-old Stinney was tried and sentenced to death by Judge Philip H. Stoll in under three hours on 14 April after an all-white ...

  5. Letter with man's dying words reaches family 99 years later - AOL

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    After 99 years, a letter containing a dying sailor's last words during World War I has finally made its way to his family. The note was penned by Sid Preston and contained the emotional last words ...

  6. List of last words (19th century) - Wikipedia

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    Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide." [citation needed] — Tecumseh, leader of the Shawnee (10 September 1813), to his son Death of Poniatowski by January Suchodolski

  7. List of last words (18th century) - Wikipedia

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    "Rather death than slavery, is the motto of the French." [61] ("Plûtot la mort que l'esclavage, C'est la devise des Français.") — Jacques Pierre Brissot, French abolitionist and leading member of the Girondins (31 October 1793), singing these words along with 21 other Girondins before their execution "They applauded me!" [61] ("Ils m ...

  8. Dirge - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] Poetic dirges may be dedicated to a specific individual or otherwise thematically refer to death. [5] The English word dirge is derived from the Latin Dirige, Domine, Deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam ("Direct my way in your sight, O Lord my God"), the first words of the first antiphon (a short chant in Christian liturgy) in the ...

  9. Words for the Dying - Wikipedia

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    Words for the Dying was released in 1989 by record labels Opal and Warner Bros. in the US and Europe and Land in the UK. It was reissued in 1992, and in 2005 with a different cover. Critical reception