The phrase "a heavy death" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing the weight or significance of a death, often in a metaphorical or emotional sense.
Example: "The news of her passing felt like a heavy death, leaving a profound impact on all who knew her."
Alternatives: "a profound loss" or "a significant passing".
"The aircraft debris has been localised, and we can only fear a heavy death toll.
Brutal labour in local industries and stone quarries, together with poor food and sanitation, caused a heavy death toll.
In July 2011, one suicide bomber drove and exploded a loaded car into the headquarters of the UN in Abuja, Nigeria causing great destruction of property and a heavy death toll.
In the 1980s, Sikh separatism and terrorism against the central government left a heavy death toll, including the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by a Sikh security guard.
The failures of the occupation are legion: delayed elections, inadequate security, eroding infrastructure, complacency over the tortures at Abu Ghraib, and a heavy death toll among Iraqi civilians and our troops.
This structure is suspected to have hosted large earthquakes, including the 1797 Riobamba event which caused severe destructions to buildings and a heavy death toll (more than 12,000 people), as well as widespread secondary effects like landsliding, liquefaction and surface cracking.
Even as a cooler weather system pushed temperatures down to just about 100F in some of the hottest parts of west Indian on Monday, officials and citizens across the country are struggling to prepare for the next surge of heat and prevent a potentially heavy death toll, as occurred last year.
However, this has left me with a heavy debt to death.
Stocks and bonds, which had become a form of wealth more important than land, could, and still can be, tied up by means of a trust; but through the impact of heavy death duties this power has now been restricted.
For what became known as the "black decade" of the 1990s, Algeria suffered horrific attacks and massacres by Islamist insurgents, sometimes almost daily, aimed at undermining its military government �� with a heavy civilian death toll.
January 12 , 2013marked the three year anniversary of the devastating earthquake that destroyed much of the infrastructure of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and exacted a heavy human death and injury toll on the population.
