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    Apparent death is a behavior in which animals take on the appearance of being dead. It is an immobile state most often triggered by a predatory attack...
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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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  • Earth Heir apparent, a person who is first in line of succession Apparent death, an antipredator behavior known as playing dead Apparent wind, a wind...
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  • (born 1979) was thus heir apparent for a few months (and is a rare example of an heir apparent losing this status without a death occurring). In 2015, pursuant...
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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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    about when death occurs may have to be reevaluated in light of the ability to restore a person to vitality after longer periods of apparent death (as happened...
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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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    A death threat is a threat, often made anonymously, by one person or a group of people to kill another person or group of people. These threats are often...
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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 death notification or, in military contexts, a casualty notification is the delivery of the news of a death to another person. There are many roles...
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  • in his imminent death was the cause of his death itself. Apparent death Broken heart syndrome Death by laughter List of unusual deaths Nocebo Stress (biological)...
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    A death hoax is a deliberate report of someone's death that is later revealed to be untrue. In some cases, it might be because the person has intentionally...
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  • community, the apparent death and subsequent return of a long-running character is often called a comic book death. A comic book death is generally not...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the death drive (German: Todestrieb) is the drive toward death and destruction, often expressed through behaviors...
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  • Death flights (Spanish: vuelos de la muerte) are a form of extrajudicial killing in which the victims are dropped to their death from airplanes or helicopters...
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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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  • 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 knell is the ringing of a church bell to announce the death of a person. Historically,[where?][when?] it was the second of three bells rung around...
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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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    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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    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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    The death poem is a genre of poetry that developed in the literary traditions of the Sinosphere—most prominently in Japan as well as certain periods of...
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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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