be vs die

Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by an adjective. 

Used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase. 

To occur, to take place. 

Used to link a subject to a measurement. 

Used to express future action as well as what is due to, intended to, or should happen. 

Used to state the age of a subject in years. 

Used to form the continuous aspect. 

To occupy a place. 

Used to indicate that the subject and object are the same. 

To exist. 

Used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same. 

Used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal. 

Used to indicate the time of day. 

Used to link two noun clauses, the first of which is a day of the week, recurring date, month, or other specific time (on which the event of the main clause took place), and the second of which is a period of time indicating how long ago that day was. 

To exist or behave in a certain way. 

Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar, also extending to certain other senses of "go". 

To tend to do, often do; marks the habitual aspect. 

Used to form the passive voice. 

Used to form the perfect aspect with certain intransitive verbs; this was more common in archaic use, especially with verbs indicating motion. "He is finished", and "He is gone" are common, but "He is come" is archaic. 

Used to indicate that the subject is an instance of the predicate nominal. 

Used to indicate passage of time since the occurrence of an event. 

To exist; to have real existence, to be alive. 

Used to indicate weather, air quality, or the like. 

followed by with as an indication of manner 

followed by of; general use 

To disappear gradually in another surface, as where mouldings are lost in a sloped or curved face. 

followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from) 

To be mortified or shocked by a situation. 

To fail to evoke laughter from the audience. 

To yearn intensely. 

To perish; to cease to exist; to become lost or extinct. 

To stop working; to break down or otherwise lose "vitality". 

To become spiritually dead; to lose hope. 

followed by from; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences 

To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc. 

To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death). 

followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes 

To expire at the end of the session of a legislature without having been brought to a vote. 

To become indifferent; to cease to be subject. 

To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor. 

To be so overcome with emotion or laughter as to be incapacitated. 

To abort, to terminate (as an error condition). 

To lose a game. 

To be or become hated or utterly ignored or cut off, as if dead.