Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.
The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.
Authority forgets a dying king.
Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.
My brain cells are dying in their trillions.
In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.
I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
In Britain, Christianity is dying. Islam, unfortunately, isn't.
To be brutally frank, I mean Christianity is dying in Europe, and Islam is on the rise.
There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.
Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.
The priesthood is not dying, but the clerical state is dead. It needs to be buried, preferably with a Viking funeral in Boston Harbor so nobody can miss the spectacle of its passing.
In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps - college students and new graduates - to do what little was left of the work of the employees they'd laid off.
I lived in Alabama for a while during the dying days of the Continental Wrestling Federation. I lived in Montgomery and traveled all over Alabama.
