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:

    “Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.”
    —Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

    “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)