Children dip hard-boiled Easter eggs into my vivid bath to tint their shells, yet pronounce my name and it sounds like the grim termination of all living things. What am I?
Dye
'Dye' is the coloring liquid used on Easter eggs, which shares its exact pronunciation with 'die'.
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