Die
Put off
Put off verb - To assign to a later time.
Both terms in one sentence
- This wasn't something that she could just put off, because for every full moon she failed to put up the circle, people would die.
Source: Wrong Assumption - Put Off Their Food: In The Myriad, Captain Farragut describes over dinner how gorgons melt into caustic brown slime when they die, then tells his chef to skip the French onion soup.
- Death Star shows that the gunner had a Heel Realization after Alderaan, and that was his way to put off firing long enough for the Death Star to be destroyed, knowing that he'd die in the process.
Source: Cerebus Retcon
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