In ancient times,however, people believed that the swan was given a special gift of song at the end of its life.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

"When those products are at the end of their useful life, how are they going to be broken down?

VOA: special.2010.01.08

Jennifer Bemisderfer says this involves thinking about a product's whole lifetime: "When those products are at the end of their useful life, how are they going to be broken down?

VOA: special.2010.01.26

"Yet,at the end of her life, in an incredibly telling gesture, in a funeral that she scripted before her death, she picked six of the family's workmen,laborers, gardeners and stable hands to be her pallbearers.

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

Swan says his early mentors instilled in him a simple environmental ethic that has guided him through life: "That was that at the end of our expeditions, we would always leave wherever we went,clean and tidy, take away our garbage, take away everything, just leave our footsteps."

VOA: standard.2009.12.10