He slept this way, in the calm, and the light of the sun went down slowly, like a dying flame.
I keep this shrine, still on a white window, Still with a timeless expression, With her back to the west, a dying flame.
I had always regarded my family as close, so it was startling to realize how much closer we could get, how near we drew around his dying flame.
Cicero died in disgrace, fanning the dying flame of liberty.
I see my face getting older, and I feel a new urgency to act but it feels like there is nothing that I can do, like I am now just the embers of a dying flame.
Less well-known protesters have died in flames in Tibet, India, Turkey and elsewhere.
Shenila Taufiq, 47, her daughter Zainab, 19, and sons Bilal, 17, and Jamil, 15 all died when flames engulfed their home in Wood Hill in the early hours of September 13.
And while Turkish doctors are saving her life, let us all -- Afghans, neighbors, strangers -- take a moment to hear the voices of many other girls who do die in flames, and let us think about how to answer them.
And yet, over the last two weeks, as the ground incursion began, as Israeli soldiers began dying, and the flames of anti-Semitism ignited at rallies in Paris, Antwerp, Los Angeles, Boston, even at a soccer match in Austria, where Maccabi Haifa players were accosted on the field, something began to shift in me.
"We can see a very ancient flame dying out before our eyes," Ms. Himukai said in a separate interview.
