By Trethewey's own account, her mother's death occasioned her first attempt to write poetry.
His death occasioned a bitter war among the tribes, and the Illinois group was almost annihilated by his avengers.
They had held the constituency through several elections, and the Conservative Member of Parliament whose death occasioned the by-election, Robert Taylor, had a considerable local following.
There followed White Noise (1985), focused on the mutations in perception of family and death occasioned by relentless exposure to all-seeing, all-saying television.
Although the King's death occasioned instant disarray amongst the coalition, Count Wratislaw was able to report that – "The greatest consolation in this confusion is that Marlborough is fully informed of the whole position and by reason of his credit with the Queen can do everything".
Oh, and he also was trying to walk a fine line between defending Israel's right to defend itself with somewhat critical comments about the number of Palestinian civilian deaths occasioned by the military operation in Gaza.
It was the same in January when they thrashed Toulouse away from home, working on the principle it was better to stay true to their instincts with ball in hand than be throttled by the fear of the big sudden-death occasion.
Imminent death often occasions self-reflection and, with it, disappointment and remorse.
Conception, birth, suffering, burial, and death are occasions, in other words, for profound and continuing questioning regarding the meaning of human life, as controversies to do with IVF, abortion, euthanasia, and the use of bodies and body parts post mortem, indicate.
