Die
Grow up
Grow up verb - To become mature.
Both terms in one sentence
- Since a new generation only takes a day to grow up and die, humankind would be extinct pretty darn soon.
Source: Artistic License Biology -
Villains can suffer these as well; as a child, Doctor Doom had to watch both his parents die and grow up an orphan among persecuted Romani in Latveria.
Source: Dark and Troubled Past -
Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions: Invoked by Bill at the end of the film with the demand that the audience "grow up or die." Poe's Law: Bill disguises himself and starts preaching the real tenets of Scientology at the Speaker's Corner in London's Hyde Park.
Source: Film / Religulous
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