Civil death (Latin: civiliter mortuus) is the loss of all or almost all civil rights by a person due to a conviction for a felony or due to an act by...

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...

usually by a court. When a death has been registered in a civil registry, a death certificate may be issued. Such death certificate may be required in...

government civil registration office, that declares the date, location and cause of a person's death, as entered in an official register of deaths. An official...

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...

Death and the Civil War is a 2012 documentary film by Ric Burns. It was aired as an episode of American Experience on PBS. The film was inspired by the...

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...

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...

Brain death is the permanent, irreversible, and complete loss of brain function which may include cessation of involuntary activity necessary to sustain...

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...

Civil registration is the system by which a government records the vital events (births, marriages, and deaths) of its citizens and residents. The resulting...

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...

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North")...

Voodoo death, a term coined by Walter Cannon in 1942 also known as psychogenic death or psychosomatic death, is the phenomenon of sudden death as brought...

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...

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...

Death is the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. The remains of a former organism normally begin to decompose...

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...

In many legal jurisdictions, the manner of death is a determination, typically made by the coroner, medical examiner, police, or similar officials, and...

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...

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...

Symbols of death are the motifs, images and concepts associated with death throughout different cultures, religions and societies. Various images are...

Cell death is the event of a biological cell ceasing to carry out its functions. This may be the result of the natural process of old cells dying and...

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...

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...

A death hoax is a deliberate report of someone's death that is later proven to be untrue. In some cases it might be because the person has intentionally...

The death poem is a genre of poetry that developed in the literary traditions of East Asian cultures—most prominently in Japan as well as certain periods...

November 1, 2019, when the Civil Law (Presumption of Death) Act 2019, commenced, a court can make a "presumption of death order" if it is satisfied that...

Dignified death, death with dignity, dying with dignity or dignity in dying is an ethical concept that refers to the end-of-life process avoiding suffering...

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...