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Promises of immortality | Khaled Diab | Comment is free

Velcro City Tourist Board found this 7/3/2009 on guardian.co.uk

Death is up there with sex on the euphemism scale. When someone breathes their last, they don't simply "die". They pass away, go to a better place, meet their maker, give up the ghost – and more colourfully, bite the dust, push up the daisies or, with a hangman's macabre wit, kick the bucket. ...