Shakespeare gives his tragic heroes big endings: they take poison, fall on their swords, perish in duels.
The British innovation will not perish in a hail of bullets, but it may yet be done in by compromise and bureaucracy.
Olive Guest and Mary Wilkinson were the only members of staff to perish in the blaze at The Hotel in Church Stretton late on 2 April 1968.
In an open letter, sent to Dutch newspapers to try to explain his actions, he cited the huge pressures to come up with interesting findings that he had been under, in the publish or perish culture that exist in the academic world, which he had been unable to resist, and which led him to his extreme actions.
Most perish almost instantly in the relentless battle for scarce shelf-space in Japan's small shops.
PMOS, these days a career civil servant who is obliged to play with the straightest of bats, has answered as best he can, they persist, trying to make him say more than he wishes or even, perish the thought, to catch him out in some way.
To this day, many Indians are convinced that Bose did not perish--that he chose to live quietly in some safe corner of the world, waiting for the right moment to return.
In manufacturing, the danger is that badly run businesses will perish before they have a chance to prosper.
Perish the thought, say senior Spanish officials: there are no more secrets in the banks, and the optimistic outlook rests on the predicted success of recent reforms (eg, to make the labour market more flexible) and scores of new ones to be adopted in the coming year.
Many sharks perish as bycatch, but increasingly they are being hunted for their fins, a delicacy in China and a lucrative commodity. (The annual export of fins is thought to be worth about a billion dollars.) One study, published in Ecology Letters last year, estimates that between twenty-six million and seventy-three million sharks are killed for their fins every year.
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