pass away

Buchan realized that “an old regime was passing away,” and that the “vanishing” of one world and the arrival of another was “apt to crush those who had to meet it.”

The letter writer, I recently discovered, passed away earlier this year.

The Berkeley Fire Department transported the student to a hospital, where he was initially listed in critical condition but later passed away.

“That plan should be: ‘How do I have enough lifetime income that I know regardless of how long I live, that I’ve got a paycheck coming in until I pass away?’” says Pinsky.

It took ten days for me to finally believe that Grandma had passed away—and since then I’ve been cycling through storms of frustration, anger, and sadness.