His mother just died; I feel bad for him.
His dear mother died yesterday.
The person dies; his work will live on forever.
He drank the poison and died.
(we don't know how long it was between the drinking and the dying; it might have been hours or days.)
If you drink that poison, you'll immediately keel over and die.
Yeah, yeah, scratch that place on my back! It itches like crazy!
Sadly, I too have had the experience of a family member dying.
My dear mother died yesterday. We buried her under a beautiful tree beside the river.
You told me that he died.