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:

    “It is a strange, strange fate, and now, as I stand face to face with death I feel just as if they were going to kill a boy. For I feel like a boy—and my hands so free from blood and my heart always so compassionate and pitiful that I cannot comprehend how anyone wants to hang me.”
    —Roger Casement (1864–1916)

    “Year after year beheld the silent toil
    That spread his lustrous coil;
    Still as the spiral grew,
    He left the past year’s dwelling for the new,
    Stole with soft step its shining archway through,
    Built up its idle door,
    Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)