Are there any suttas where the Buddha uses the word death metaphorically?
MN105 at least: “For it is death in the training of the Noble One to reject the training and return to a lesser life.”
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There is also:
The killing of anger, O devatā,
With its poisoned root and honeyed tip:
This is the killing the noble ones praise
~ SN 1.71
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