But some businesses are cashing in on the plague: contractors have tripled the rental for earth-moving equipment needed to bury the dead pigs.

CNN: ON DEADLY GROUND

The skies above Earth are now littered with the debris of dead satellites, bits of old rockets and the odd tool dropped by a spacewalking astronaut.

ECONOMIST: A satellite that tidies up after itself

How often have philosophers ruminated about how many trillions of dead invertebrates are swallowed up by the earth?

FORBES: 5 Million Deaths From Climate Change Pedicted By 2020

They survived like that for the first 17 days, cut off from a world that had given them up for dead a half a mile under the Earth's surface.

CNN: Chilean miners waited for death

They reveal L.Ron's core belief that we're all inhabited with the ghostly remains of dead aliens called Thetans, exiled to planet Earth and then killed by an intergalactic warlord.

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He has a few magic powers, such as resurrecting the dead, but, having languished in confinement for decades on Earth, and finally escaped, he has soaked up the worst of our habits.

NEWYORKER: Out There

The physical death is when you are no longer alive to walk the earth, and the emotional death is when you no longer see signs of hope and are dead inside.

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Friends of the Earth Cymru says the falling cost of wind and solar energy will soon leave the business case for the barrage "dead in the water".

BBC: Severn Barrage: Time to 'grasp opportunity', says Hain