But I did want to try to explain why the issue refuses to die completely.

I refuse to die out of uniform, she told herself.

I refuse to die at the hands of a monster such as you!

It was the second major hit he'd taken in the course of the day, and still he refused to die.

This seems to me to be the most important thing we can do, since we're all of us dying men who refuse to die.

If the old refused to die, the new could not be born.

What was between them refused to die, batter it about as they would.

He refused to die here when there was still so much work to be done.

They'd refused to die when their ship was shot down.

The man was near death, but he refused to die.