passes away

“We discussed a lot what would happen if the queen passes away during the time of us making ‘The Crown,’” said Mackie in a recent Zoom interview from her London home.

‘We discussed a lot what would happen if the queen passes away during the time of us making ‘The Crown.’

"It always comes as a shock when someone passes away, even if the family is completely prepared."

However, BBC Monitoring jihadist media analyst Mina al-Lami said he described him as one "who Allah took" - a phrase mostly used to describe a person who passes away, rather than someone who is killed.

Instead of what passes away, he’s thinking about what can be rescued from some nameless, shapeless future obliteration.