"a devastating death" is a correct and suitable phrase to use in written English.
You could use this phrase when referring to a death that has had a profound impact on one or more people, usually due to the suddenness or unexpected nature of the death. For example: "The family was left reeling after the devastating death of their beloved father."
He points out that the only prior pandemic with a devastating death toll was in 1918, and he says that may have been "a unique biological event".
The AIDS pandemic has had such a devastating death toll that is reflected in a considerable reduction of the national average life expectancy of various countries.
If SARS takes root in Africa, hitting populations where AIDS has already weakened immune systems, it could exact a devastating death toll and set back economic development for decades.
was rocked by its first murder in over 20 years -- the devastating death of a recent high school graduate at the hands of her controlling ex-boyfriend.
This will allow us to assess the long-term impact of the genocide a decade after the event, beyond the devastating death toll and to estimate the number of people needing services in Rwanda because of their war-related MSI.
Instead it's a true story of a massive failure of leadership on multiple levels, and the devastating death of more than sixty babies in Wangzhuang and the neighbouring villages.
After a two-year break, following the sudden and devastating death of her father, Fouras began to explore similar territory with choreographers such as Jonathan Burrows and Maliphant himself.
The fiery Chilean-American literary powerhouse has used her life's traumas -- which include being politically exiled from Chile when her cousin was overthrown by Pinochet, the devastating death of her daughter from a rare disease and the drug related deaths of two of her step-children -- to better the world through her writing, her speaking and through her foundation and nonprofit work.
The devastating death toll has Mr. Peña Nieto, 46, a former governor, promising to move his country's fight against organized crime in a different direction, focusing more on reducing violence than on detaining drug kingpins.
Then someone starts sending strange messages to Jade after the devastating death of her dad.
After the devastating death of his first wife, Gabriel, from cancer at the age of 46, this custom was revived during his second marriage, to Anne.
