The intertitle announces, "At that very hour the Great Death ceased and the shadow of the vampire vanished as if overcome by the victorious rays of the living sun": the good news everyone's been waiting for.
He writes, "If death ceased to be talked about when it first really began to be feared, and then more so when we started to live longer, it has also gone off the agenda because it has ceased to be there, with us, in the house".
They continued to write to each other, and though the death of her daughter became no less sad, though she missed her no less, her death ceased to seem so existentially unjust and mysterious.
Man's greatest orgy of death and destruction ceased.
After identifying the contamination source, the flour and bread products were quickly discarded, and the deaths ceased.
As everyone gets older, of course, death ceases to be a distinctive experience, and sure enough, by book's end, the bodies -- both literal and metaphorical -- begin to pile up: a friend attempts suicide; the girlfriend of a colleague at work goes into the hospital with what she thinks is food poisoning and dies a few days later.
If already satisfied, or given up, a desire cannot be thwarted, even by death, so as we lose our motivation for living, death ceases to be objectionable to us.
The narrative of Miracle Day focuses on an event in which death ceases to occur across the world and the gravely-wounded continue to remain alive.
On that day, the Kate Macy Ladd Convalescent Home, which was named for his wife and established in their home after her death, will cease to be, pursuant to the philanthropist's will.
Income tax rates will fall, death will cease to be taxable, the child credit will increase, the marriage penalty will be reduced, and retirement and education savings options will be expanded.
