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:

    “And yet the sun pardons our voices still,
    And berries in the hedge
    Through all the nights of rain have come to the full,
    And death seems like long hills, a range
    We ride each day towards, and never reach.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “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)