The man should not be forced to watch his family die.

He had been ill for several years, his family said, and died while traveling.

About nine people in the village of 425 families had died.

Three years later, he and his family died in a plague.

Whole families died and more than half the dead were children.

He remembered that today was the day his family had died.

He and his sister were the ones who took care of me after my own family died.

As' those families died or moved on and the town's population grew, things changed.

She'd never been able to bring herself to tell him about what happened the night her family died.

On many of them whole families lived and died, having no other home.