Death Spiral

Death spiral may refer to:

  • Spiral dive, a terminal situation in flying
  • Death spiral (figure skating), an element of pair skating
  • Death spiral (insurance), an insurance plan whose costs are rapidly increasing
  • Death spiral financing
  • Ant mill, a behavioral phenomenon in ants

Famous quotes containing the words death and/or spiral:

    “In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.”
    —Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)

    “What is art,
    But life upon the larger scale, the higher,
    When, graduating up in a spiral line
    Of still expanding and ascending gyres,
    It pushes toward the intense significance
    Of all things, hungry for the Infinite?
    Art’s life,—and where we live, we suffer and toil.”
    —Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)