"It's hard to put into words right now, but it's beautiful that a person can live and die engaged in their life's pursuits," his grandfather, Dolph, told The Tennessean. "This was his dream since he was a child, to be an aviator, a flier".
Birdie, dead, chats with the other dead; Finus, soon to die, engages in graveyard argument with his dead wife, who appears in the shape of a cat.
He died while engaged in this task.
What scares me, on the other hand, is dying while engaging in needless, thrill-seeking activity.
Over the decades after he died, those engaged in research predicated on his theory of gravity came increasingly to this same view of the question of mechanism.
As he lay dying, Sands engaged in a fateful stunt: he ran for a seat in the British Parliament, representing Fermanagh and South Tyrone, and he won.
The book says that John Paul, who died in 2005, engaged in a practice known as mortification, the self-infliction of pain in order to feel closer to God, whipping himself with a belt that he kept in his closet.
While Malcolm viewed the "white press" as more or less a lost cause — its coverage remained largely negative until the day he died — he nevertheless engaged it and, at times, outsmarted it.
When he died he was engaged in gaining a monopoly of the pepper of interior Sumatra, which was later sealed off securely by the fall of Portuguese Malacca in 1641.
Soon after assuming their seats on the bench Wednesday, the justices — minus staunch conservative Antonin Scalia, who died on February 13 — engaged in heated exchanges with lawyers for both sides in the case.
