The AP editors said the death of singer Michael Jackson in June was also among the top news stories.

VOA: special.2010.01.02

And when I asked about philosophy he said philosophy has nothing to say about death, only poetry has something to say about death.

当我问到哲学的时候,他说哲学与死亡无关，只有诗能够解读死亡。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Now you record that at the start of this semester I said in thinking about the question ? could I survive my death?

你们还记得这学期一开始,我提出的问题吗,我能幸免于一死吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But people who knew her said failed marriages, and the failure of her latest movie also led to her death.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

So now the blood of the sacrificial lamb is said to have protected the Hebrews from the angel of death, and the bread now is said to have been eaten, consumed in unleavened form, because the Hebrews left Egypt in such a hurry.

这羊羔的血可以保护,犹太人逃脱死亡天使的杀戮,要吃没有发酵的面包，因为犹太人匆匆忙忙的离开了埃及。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

It caused strange thoughts. He said the cold and silence of this frozen world seemed to increase a man's fear of death.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

And he said, philosophy has nothing to say about death.

他说，哲学与死亡毫无关系。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Emperor Norton said this was necessary because Governor Wise had ordered the death by hanging of John Brown.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

Suppose somebody said, "Yeah, it's true if I thought about the nature of death, the fact that the 50, 80, 90 years I've got on this Earth is all I'm going to have.

假设有人说，“没错如果我考虑了死亡的本质，我还有50，80，90年存活于世,我还有这么多年可活这个事实。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Whitney Balliett of The New Yorker Magazine wrote about Coltrane the year after his death: "People said they heard the dark night ...

VOA: special.2010.11.07

One friend said: "Margaret Mead was not going to let a little thing like death stop her."

VOA: special.2010.01.17

He looked at the two objects,then said, "A hammer will be the death of me."

VOA: special.2010.09.04

In the death camps,she said, the cloth was so thick that she did not really know what she was photographing until she saw the finished pictures.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

Mister Rehm said the high death rate is even more surprising because the large majority of adults around the world do not drink alcohol at all.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

Maya Lin has said that death is a private and personal matter.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

"Competing against the machine will be the death of you," she said.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

Said Vice President Thomas Marshall: "Death had to take him sleeping.

VOA: special.2010.09.16

Patrick Henry said, "give me liberty or give me death."

VOA: special.2009.04.24

Experts said the cause of death is unknown.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

It belonged to one of his doctors, and police said they were looking for medications that could be related to Jackson's death.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

In a statement read to the court, he said that while he had no fear of death, he was frightened of pain.

VOA: standard.2009.08.14

Senator Tom Harkin, the son of a miner. He said each death was one too many.

VOA: standard.2010.04.27

Rescue workers are sifting through the wreckage in search of 18 missing people and have said that the death toll is likely to rise.

VOA: standard.2009.11.27

But the recent U.S.comments confirm what Pakistani officials said weeks ago, that they believe Mehsud died during Taliban infighting following the death of former group leader Baitullah Mehsud.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

He said Germans who worked at the Sobibor death camp in then Nazi-occupied Poland, where Demjanjuk is accused of working as a guard, were acquitted in previous trials.

VOA: standard.2009.11.30

Earlier this week,a group representing Mogadishu's dominant Hawiye clan said that al-Shabab militants had sent death threats to clan elders for participating in peace and reconciliation efforts with Somalia's interim government.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

Such an option exists under Scottish law, and Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill, announcing Megrahi's release Thursday, said the convicted bomber and former Libyan intelligence officer is near death from prostate cancer.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

Barro said President Obama spoke at length about the death toll from the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington but failed to address how many people have been killed by U.S.troops in Iraq.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

So much unnecessary attention around this conference had been directed towards the dispute that is unintentionally distracting from the real life and death issues we are confronted with as a country, He said it would be wrong for the controversy to overshadow the goals of the 13th international AIDS Conference.

VOA: standard.2010.05.17