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The human skull is used universally as a symbol of death. Death is the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. The remains of a former organism normally begin to decompose shortly after death. Death eventually and inevitably occurs in all organisms.
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- Death (Disambiguation)
Jason Death (born 1971), Australian rugby league footballer;...
- Brain Death
Brain death is the permanent, irreversible, and complete...
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- Consciousness After Death
Śmierć ("Death"), a 1902 painting by Jacek Malczewski....
- Death Anxiety
His "Death Attitude Profile" identifies three types of death...
- Mortality Salience
People with low self-esteem are more apt to experience the...
- Biological Immortality
Biological immortality (sometimes referred to as...
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Mononoke ( 物の怪) are vengeful spirits ( onryō ), dead spirits ( shiryō ), live spirits ( ikiryō ), or spirits in Japanese classical literature and folk religion that were said to do things like possess individuals and make them suffer, cause disease, or even cause death.
Death and the Miser. Death and the Miser (also known as Death of the Usurer) is a Northern Renaissance painting produced between 1490 and 1516 by the Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch. The piece was originally part of a triptych, but the center piece is missing. It is a memento mori painting, which is meant to remind the viewer of the inevitability ...
Death is the end of a life in an organism. All biological and living activity of the living thing stops, including the mind and the senses. The usual signal for death in humans and many other animals is that the heart stops beating and cannot be restarted. This can be caused by many things.
Death refers to the permanent termination of life-sustaining processes in an organism, i.e. when all biological systems of a human being cease to operate. Death and its spiritual ramifications are debated in every manner all over the world. Most civilizations dispose of their dead with rituals developed through spiritual traditions.
Death of a child, or death in childhood, or death of children and youth, refers to the death of children and young people over one year of age. Deaths prior to age one are classified as infant deaths .
Traditional definitions of medical death are unambiguous, describing a final event that leads to the absolute state of being dead—in which case the biological death of a human being (idem identity) is co-terminus with the social death of the person (ipse identity).
