Possible Clues:

• Dead to the world
• As the dodo?
• Former partner with bird flying over North Carolina is no longer around
• On tops of collectors' tables old money is put out
• Defunct passage from the Bible incorporated 'the first shall be last'
• Obsolete former wife can cheat heartlessly
• Variable element in religious group missing leader no longer around
• Old former wife can cheat heartlessly
• Vanished in the middle of sending message to court
• Permanently inactive