Herman Taller died in 1984.
White oak trees are shorter and wider than most trees around them. By being wider, they shade out seedlings that would grow into taller trees and shade them out. By being shorter, they let lightning hit and kill the taller trees. Once the taller trees growing right around them die, others do not replace them. They are still short so that lightning hits other trees. Lightning hits those trees which are replaced.
Richard Shorter died in 1984.
Stuart Shorter died in 2002.
Clement King Shorter died in 1926.
Eli Sims Shorter died in 1879.
Jim Shorter died on 2000-06-01.
John Gill Shorter died in 1872.
Dora Sigerson Shorter died in 1918.
giraffe's with shorter necks died from starvation
People toot after they die to release gases that they were going to release before to get it out of their system.
There is a saying, "only the good die young" so probably not, but mean people have sadder, less fulfilling lives for sure.