to perish

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to perish - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  TO PERISH. To come to an end; to cease to be; to die. 
       2. What has never existed cannot be said to have perished. 
       3. When two or more persons die by the same accident, as a shipwreck, 
  no presumption arises that one perished before the other. Vide Death. 
  Survivorship.