Arrival
Arrival noun - The act of coming upon a scene.
Death
Death noun - The permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities.
How words are described
| human | human arrival | human death |
| physical | physical arrival | physical death |
| instant | instant arrival | instant death |
| original | original arrival | original death |
| Other adjectives: true, actual, untimely, slow, potential, new, early, immediate, final, apparent, unexpected, accidental, later, mysterious, unusual, inevitable, subsequent, impending, last, eventual, recent, aforementioned. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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In both cases, the Aesop usually demands that the character's death and arrival in the afterlife make it into the story somehow, and the death is used to remind readers that they can't put off accepting Jesus.
Source: Comic Book / Chick Tracts -
It backfires once the decoys start being killed, because the news that "Dracula's dead" travels faster than the news that there are decoys in play, and his troops are demoralized by their leader's apparent death (and then also bewildered by the arrival of multiple conflicting accounts of his death).
Source: Literature / Anno Dracula - Baal eventually starved to death, but not before telling En Sabah Nur of Rama Tut's arrival and subsequent conquest of the land, and that he believed Nur was destined to stop him.
Source: You Killed My Father
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