He had been living as a dead man for years, and without her sudden presence in his suffocating cloister, coaxing and tempting him, he would certainly have died a dead man.

NEWYORKER: The Valetudinarian

Three times he had urged his mare to a deathbed where he was asked to perform resuscitation to represent as living someone he had just met as dead.

NEWYORKER: The Limner

Many of Mr Brands's tycoons, the living as well as the dead, share Morgan's confidence that their interests and the national interest are one and the same thing.

ECONOMIST: Financial history

In later years he disappeared so frequently from the American scene that he was often assumed to be dead, or living as a recluse in the woods somewhere.

ECONOMIST: Gene Pitney

This denotes stylish world-weariness in the un-dead as well as the plain old living.

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"It is also a symbol that marks the doorway between the world of the living and the world of the dead that is offered as our acknowledgement of the dead, " he told the BBC.

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"As long as dead forest is worth more in the market than living, standing forest, it's going to be a very tough, uphill fight to preserve very much, " says Stephan Schwartzman, director of tropical forest policy for the EDF.

FORBES: Thought Leaders

One foreign election observer even estimated that it would have been as high as 60% had the electoral rolls been winnowed of the dead and those living abroad.

ECONOMIST: Guatemala