As he grows older, death returns as a theme, and as his monologues adopt some of the idioms of therapy culture, the specters of depression and its sister maladies creep into the frame.
"The Müllers all got to go in together, so why don't we?" A veteran fighter against homophobia and for the right to be openly gay, Osterland knows she's getting older: "Death is a part of life; it's about learning to live with it and accepting this.
As he grew older, deaths naturally accumulated round him: Frau von Stein in 1827, Duke Charles Augustus in 1828.
The leading causes of elderly (65 years and older) deaths were stroke (25.8%), followed by malignant neoplasm (15.7%), ARI/pneumonia (9.3%), tuberculosis (9.2%), cardiac diseases (8.2%), and COPD or asthma (7.6%), totalling 75.8% of all deaths.
Alternatively, the ASYR could have been used to rank the leading causes of death; however, this was not our first choice because it requires population estimates, and the rankings would still be influenced by older deaths.
The leading cause of elderly (aged 65 and older) deaths was stroke (26.8%), followed by malignant neoplasm (14.6%), cardiac diseases (11.3%), tuberculosis (8.8%), COPD (8.7%), ARI/pneumonia (6.9%), and diabetes (4.4%), totalling to 81.5% of all the deaths.
Taking cues from gnarled old death songs like TB Blues, Morrison conjures something entirely idiosyncratic.
Sometimes, as in Mrs. McCaskill's case, it was old death.
But conservative commentators seemed to be pining for the old "death cult" days.
Danielian sat in a chair, the old Death's Head Impresario of the Ballet, looking like an ancient John Kingsland.
For several years, largely Sunni insurgent groups have attacked Shiites during the holiday, which commemorates the centuries-old death of a revered imam.
