τελευταω occurs 12 times.

[John of Japan]

I have seen news paper obituaries where "dies" is used in the past tense. Truthfully "dies" as I proposed using it and as used in the seen obituaries is not found standard dictionaries. Maybe Gill's "near" for the adverb is the better solution. I do think the common translation topically being used in Matthew 9:18 is an error.

I checked a couple of these, and the term "dies" was being used in a headline sense rather than the actual obituary. So we might say in a headline, "Firefighter Dies Rescuing Child," but the actual article would say, "The firefighter died/passed while rescuing...."