Madonna Ciccone

People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone's demise or some big faux-pas they made, everyone wants to tune into it, because it's nice to know that someone else made a mistake. It makes you feel elevated for a moment.

American Musician

Marianne Elliott

For me, 'Angels in America' is not really about AIDS. For me, it's a metaphor for anybody who is struggling with serious illness or having to face their own demise. All of the characters face some form of destruction in themselves.

British Director

Stanislav Grof

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

Czechoslovakian Psychologist

Henry Rollins

To our enemies all over the world who plan America's demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all.

Naga Chaitanya

I think Grandad's demise brought our family closer. He has been such a great personality and inspiration to us.

Indian Actor

KRS-One

The single most important lesson I learned is that black people are the cause of black people's demise.

Skitch Henderson

I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.

Elon Musk

The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated.

South African Businessman

Michael Rapino

Corporate America couldn't be more excited about the demise of the record companies.

American Businessman

Larry Wilmore

I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.

American Comedian

Often used metaphorically to describe the end of something non-living, like an organization.

Metaphorical Use

Can refer to the end of negative things, implying a positive outcome.

Not Always Negative

Used for ceasing abstract concepts, like traditions or ideas.

Abstract Concepts

A polite way to refer to death when being sensitive to the feelings of others.

Euphemistic Term

More common in formal or literary contexts, less in casual speech.

Formal or Literary

Primarily associated with the death of humans, not animals or objects.

Human-centered Term

Specific to legal contexts; not to be confused with 'demise' meaning death.

Legal Jargon

Reflects transferring ownership or rights to property, through legal means.

Property Transfer

Indicates a legal transaction, not physically giving something to someone.

Not Physical Handover

 Like, none of us want to be there. But also as a scientist, I know how important they are to the whole health of the forest. Many of the honeycreepers that are remaining are insectivores, so they're always maintaining pest populations that would otherwise infect the trees and cause the tree's demise.

Saving Hawaii’s Birds...

 the world may have led to his demise he may have pushed his luck too far but it was this spirit that gave him two years of living life to the full in the wilds of Africa taki was obviously very confused for a while after he lost his brother but he soon began to adjust to a life alone

Cheetah Brothers...

 There's an unthinking tendency to imagine that humans will be there, experiencing the sun's demise, but any life and intelligence that exists then will be as different from us as we are from bacteria. The unfolding of intelligence and complexity

Sir Martin Rees: Earth...

 the scene to relief the merchantmen and to hunt the submarine if tim fires again to assure the demise of robert j walker he will have used a third of his torpedoes on just one target but in the end he returns to carl dennis's wisdom

The Sinking of the SS...

 would lead us to the travel beyond and they will share our demise with our loved ones with empathy and compassion they'll give them hope to carry on this is the ideal picture of health care it is this ideal picture that inspired me

Empathy costs no dime PIPE...

 I began to tell the patient of his imminent demise. He already knew by my tone of voice and body language. As I placed the defibrillator pads on his chest, prepping for what was going to happen, he looked me in the eye and said,

Matthew O'Reilly: "Am I...

 Unfortunately, the ironic twist here could see the demise of humanity. And so maybe the reason we aren't connecting with life elsewhere, intelligent life elsewhere, is that once it evolves, it extinguishes itself quickly.

This ancient rock is...

 when the truth is that there will be no miracles here. And this doubt, it fuels me, it gives me hope that when our troubles overwhelm us, when the paths laid out for us seem to lead to our demise,

The gospel of doubt PIPE...

 It wasn't a cause of my demise, but we got out of control. I thought, the power, the success, and the money, and I would be happy for once in my life. And I wasn't.

Meth Smuggling Model PIPE...

 That’ll help us learn what else the spectacular demise of these dense, pulsating, spinning magnets can tell us about the universe.

Demise

Metaphorical Use

Not Always Negative

Abstract Concepts

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