• Better, then, for her reproductive capacity to be curtailed a decade or two before her death, so that she can devote more energy to raising her existing brood, and be more likely to live to do so.

    ECONOMIST: Ageing

  • But she also cuts the figure of an impulsive woman, difficult to please, harder still to pin down, and known, lately, to be off her rocker, understandably so, because of her son's death.

    NPR: Somalia's Farah: Humanizing a Broken Place

  • She mattered to the players so much that, following her death at age 68 in July, the whole team commissioned a painting in her memory and presented it to Bob in an emotional locker room ceremony celebrating a late-season victory.

    CNN: Patriots' cry: Win it for Myra!

  • Those who have written on the topic point out that this was a death that was avoidable, but none do so better than Margaret Carlson in her article for Bloomberg titled Death Shows Schools Need Power of EpiPen.

    FORBES: Of Course There Should be Epinephrine in Our Schools

  • Like so many, I was heartbroken by her death.

    FORBES: A Princess's Legacy of Leadership: Diana And Kate

  • Her brother the Duke of Gloucester who led her was so shocked at seeing her in such a situation that he looked as pale as death and as if he was ready to faint away.

    NPR: Excerpt: Princesses

  • The firm had been tolerant at first, but it had not been so easy, dealing with her mother's death just as an important case was about to go to trial.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Unaccustomed Earth'

  • That over 25 years after her death, Rand's persona and ideas command so much attention is testimony to the abiding power of her ideas.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • She travelled with this company once before, after the death of her third husband, five years ago, so she knows pretty much what to expect.

    NEWYORKER: Stone Mattress

  • So she is holding the property so that her heirs will get a step up in cost basis on her death and owe no tax.

    FORBES: Blame the Joint Committee on Taxation not the CBO

  • Earlier, the defendant told the jury that her mother only wanted her to care for her and that she had "absolutely no idea" she was so close to death.

    BBC: Mental illness 'affected' death accused Angela Pearson

  • In the weeks before his wife's death in 2001, Mr Fullwood was in hospital himself so unable to care for her at home as usual.

    BBC: 'I want to die in my own home'

  • The Pope granted a dispensation so the procedure for establishing Mother Teresa's case for sainthood could start just two years after her death.

    BBC: NEWS | Europe | Crowds cheer Mother Teresa beatification

  • Just as the parents of Nicole Simpson and of Ron Goldman, found murdered with her, successfully brought a civil suit in 1996 against Mr Simpson for causing wrongful death, so Sunil and Deborah Eappen now intend to pursue Miss Woodward.

    ECONOMIST: Balancing the scales

  • So Zuckerman and her husband signed a contract specifically granting her daughter 100% of her assets upon Zuckerman's death.

    FORBES: For Love And Money

  • He talked about how his mother had scrapped with insurance companies on her death bed, how the family had been on food stamps, and how his grandmother scrimped so that the family could afford to give him a first-class education.

    BBC: McCain's jabs fall short of Obama

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