For the minority Finno-Ugric languages of Russia are dying, spoken mainly by old people in the countryside and a handful of intellectuals.
Everyone behaves well, and the dying speak frankly and lucidly about their lives and their concern for those they're leaving behind.
Susie Steiner's short piece listing the top five regrets of the dying speaks to the appeal of writing on the human condition, and particularly of the way in which this kind of content is shared over very long periods of time on Facebook.
Baker told the story brilliantly in a Radio Scotland documentary made not long before he died, speaking, of course, in his broad West of Scotland accent.
His mother speaks, his wife speaks, and even Helen, whose actions precipitated the war in which he died, speaks.
Many times, Rescorla cradled the bodies of his dying soldiers, speaking softly and reassuringly to them.
"We have to hold the hands of dying patients, speak to bereaved relatives, speak to people feeling the worst pain they will ever suffer," she says.
He died still speaking of that quest.
People suffered and died without speaking or otherwise making a sound.
"The tragedy was that the patient died, when speaking up would have made all the difference".
Representative Ken Legler, Republican of Pasadena, will probably live or die, politically speaking, by what the courts do.
