Whatever its state of completion, the work died with him.
When you leave work and someone you're very fond of has died, I talk about it to my mum.
These people die and the work dies with them.
The composer Borodin left the work incomplete when he died in 1887.
Predeceased: The writers whose work dies before they do 5.
But our work would die, and the world would be the lesser for it.
More than once in the 1980's, the lawyers said they feared that their work would die under a Government ban.
Performance artist Linda Montano has also done work related to him since he died.
But perhaps it's right that all his work and greatness should die with him.
This work eventually died down too, but there would always be coachbuilders around.