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  2. List of English-language expressions related to death

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    Dying in droves Simile: also falling ill in numbers Drop the Body Died Euphemistic Used by new-age spiritually minded people instead of the term died, suggesting that, while the person's body died, his or her spirit lives on Entered the homeland 1950s Grave England Euphemistic: Eaten a twinkie [citation needed] Die Humorous

  3. Patron saints of ailments, illness, and dangers - Wikipedia

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    Saints have often been prevailed upon in requests for intercessory prayers to protect against or help combatting a variety of dangers, illnesses, and ailments. This is a list of saints and such ills traditionally associated with them. In shorthand, they are called the patron saints of (people guarding against or grappling with) these various ...

  4. Lists of unusual deaths - Wikipedia

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    Slotin died 9 days later; the other people in the room observing the experiment survived. [291] [292] Thomas Mantell: 7 January 1948: The 25-year-old P-51 Mustang fighter pilot crashed while in pursuit of an unidentified flying object near Franklin, Kentucky, thus becoming the first person known to have died as a result of a UFO sighting.

  5. List of last words - Wikipedia

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    Death of Ragnar Lodbrok as imagined by 19th-century artist Hugo Hamilton "The piglets would grunt if they knew how the old boar is suffering!" ("Gnyðja mundu grísir, ef þeir vissi, hvat inn gamli þyldi.") [53] — Ragnar Lodbrok, semi-legendary Norse chieftain (c. 850) after being cast into a snakepit by King Ælla of Northumbria

  6. Kuru (disease) - Wikipedia

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    After the disease had progressed into a larger epidemic, the tribal people asked Charles Pfarr, a Lutheran medical officer, to come to the area to report the disease to Australian authorities. [7] Initially, the Fore people believed the causes of kuru to be sorcery or witchcraft. [35] They also thought that the magic causing kuru was contagious.

  7. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    “The event or death may have been related to the underlying disease being treated, may have been caused by some other product being used at the same time, or may have occurred for other reasons.” The Times story also cited a buprenorphine study by researchers in Sweden that looked at “100 autopsies where buprenorphine had been detected.”

  8. List of epidemics and pandemics - Wikipedia

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    There have been various major infectious diseases with high prevalence worldwide, but they are currently not listed in the above table as epidemics/pandemics due to the lack of definite data, such as time span and death toll. An Ethiopian child with malaria, a disease with an annual death rate of 619,000 as of 2021. [18]

  9. Causes of Jane Austen's death - Wikipedia

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    Watercolor portrait of Jane Austen (1775–1817) painted around 1810, by her sister Cassandra Austen. National Portrait Gallery, London.. The causes of Jane Austen's death, which occurred on July 18, 1817 at the age of 41, following an undetermined illness that lasted about a year, have been discussed retrospectively by doctors whose conclusions have subsequently been taken up and analyzed by ...