Second, it’s not the demise of the tiny smelt — the Republicans’ favorite target — that’s so concerning to many conservationists.

The lack of an informed citizenry is a perfect predicate for the rise of oligarchic, kleptocratic and authoritarian rule—and the further decline or demise of democratic self-governance.

In that fictional scenario, humanity barbecued itself; in reality, Trenberth describes our species’ demise as more of a slow boil.

It’s hard not to muse — even with little confirmed information — on the demise of such a surreally glamorous, even exotic public couple as Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.

There were some mitigating factors to Rooney's demise at Plymouth - some avoidable, some not so.