Death
He died without a male heir at the age of 32 in January 1864, by suspected foul play by the Andong Kim clan, the same clan that had made him king.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“‘Tis no great valor to perish sword in hand, and bravado on lip; cased all in panoply complete. For even the alligator dies in his mail, and the swordfish never surrenders. To expire, mild-eyed, in one’s bed, transcends the death of Epaminondas.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“My glass shall not persuade me I am old
So long as youth and thou are of one date,
But when in thee time’s furrows I behold,
Then look I death my days should expiate.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“... the heart monitor,
the death cricket bleeping.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)