Death anxiety is anxiety caused by thoughts of one's own death, and is also known as thanatophobia (fear of death). Individuals affected by this kind...
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Anxiety is an emotion which is characterised by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil and includes feelings of dread over anticipated events. Anxiety is...
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A death mask is a likeness (typically in wax or plaster cast) of a person's face after their death, usually made by taking a cast or impression from the...
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Terror management theory (category Death)
represented by death with the significance provided by symbolic culture. The most obvious examples of cultural values that assuage death anxiety are those...
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A death rattle is noisy breathing that often occurs in someone who is near death. It is caused by an accumulation of fluids such as saliva and bronchial...
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manage death anxiety. Some people, however, will engage in hedonic pursuits like drugs, alcohol, and entertainment to escape their death anxiety—often...
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that death is inevitable. However, self-esteem and culture are ways to reduce the anxiety this effect can cause. The awareness of someone's own death can...
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A death erection, angel lust, rigor erectus, or terminal erection is a post-mortem erection, technically a priapism, observed in the corpses of men who...
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Dignified death, death with dignity, dying with dignity or dignity in dying is an ethical concept aimed at avoiding suffering and maintaining control and...
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Fan death is a misconception that people have died as a result of running an electric fan in a closed room with no open windows. While the supposed mechanics...
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Brain death is the permanent, irreversible, and complete loss of brain function, which may include cessation of involuntary activity necessary to sustain...
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A faked death, also called a staged death, is the act of an individual purposely deceiving other people into believing that the individual is dead, when...
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In many legal jurisdictions, the manner of death is a determination, typically made by the coroner, medical examiner, police, or similar officials, and...
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date, location and cause of a person's death, as entered in an official register of deaths. An official death certificate is usually required to be provided...
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phobia is associated with the idea of being alone, often causing severe anxiety. While autophobia isn't recognized as its own individual phobic disorder...
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aging Death anxiety Disorders of consciousness, including brain death Dualism (philosophy of mind) Eternal oblivion Information-theoretic death Life extension...
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from birth to the anxiety stirred up by the inborn polarity of instincts—the immediate conflict between the life instinct and the death instinct"; and Kleinians...
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of most cultures incorporate a god of death or, more frequently, a divine being closely associated with death, an afterlife, or an underworld. They are...
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Death row, also known as condemned row, is a place in a prison that houses inmates awaiting execution after being convicted of a capital crime and sentenced...
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Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a mental and behavioral disorder, specifically an anxiety disorder characterized by excessive, uncontrollable and...
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Death from laughter is an extremely rare form of death, usually resulting from either cardiac arrest or asphyxiation, that has itself been caused by a...
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Accidental deaths in the United States An accidental death is an unnatural death that is caused by an accident, such as a slip and fall, traffic collision...
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Social anxiety is the anxiety and fear specifically linked to being in social settings (i.e., interacting with others). Some categories of disorders associated...
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Symbols of death are the motifs, images and concepts associated with death throughout different cultures, religions and societies. Various images are...
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A death anniversary (or deathday) is the anniversary of the death of a person. It is the opposite of birthday. It is a custom in several Asian cultures...
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could be the cause of death as a result of little food or water. States Cannon: "The combination of lack of food and water, anxiety, very rapid pulse and...
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Clinical death is the medical term for cessation of blood circulation and breathing, the two criteria necessary to sustain the lives of human beings and...
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A death march is a forced march of prisoners of war or other captives or deportees in which individuals are left to die along the way. It is distinguished...
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death is the recognition under the law of a particular jurisdiction that a person is no longer alive. In most cases, a doctor's declaration of death (variously...
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A death midwife, or death doula, is a person who assists in the dying process, much like a midwife or doula does with the birthing process. It is often...
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