Death

So I must describe death in one word, sounds pretty simple doesn't it as there must be many ways to describe the end of life.

Let's run through a few, just to lay the table so to speak. We could use final, culminated, croaked, resting, sleeping, ended, dead, still, inert, lifeless, defunct, inanimate and quite a few others.

On this occasion I'll go for ...

Expired.