Carpathia were declared legally dead soon after Carpathia arrived at New York City. More recently, the State of New York issued death certificates for...

absent". (In) absentia may also refer to: Award in absentia Declared death in absentia, or simply, death in absentia, legally declared death without a...

Look up in absentia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Death in absentia may refer to: Declared death in absentia Sentenced to death in absentia, see trial...

Trial in absentia is a criminal proceeding in a court of law in which the person who is subject to it is not physically present at those proceedings. In absentia...

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...

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...

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...

Clinical death that occurs unexpectedly is treated as a medical emergency. CPR is initiated. In a United States hospital, a Code Blue is declared and Advanced...

In classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the death drive (German: Todestrieb) is the drive toward death and destruction, often expressed through behaviors...

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...

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...

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...

death knell, but the immediate ringing after death fell into disuse. It was customary in some places by the end of the 19th century to ring the death...

locked-in syndrome. A differential diagnosis can medically distinguish these differing conditions. Brain death is used as an indicator of legal death in many...

intimidate victims in order to manipulate their behaviour, in which case a death threat could be a form of coercion. For example, a death threat could be...

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...

of death. There are many anecdotal references to people being declared dead by physicians and then "coming back to life," sometimes days later in their...

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...

or declared legally dead, usually by a court. When a death has been registered in a civil registry, a death certificate may be issued. Such death certificate...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

that the individual is dead, when the person is, in fact, still alive. The faking of one's own death by suicide is sometimes referred to as pseuicide...

(PAS), "physician-assisted dying", "physician-assisted death", "assisted death" and "medical aid in dying" (MAiD). Assisted suicide is similar to but distinct...

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

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...

diseases Death by accident or misadventure Stillborn Death from natural causes Open verdict Disaster Some jurisdictions[which?] place deaths in absentia, such...

and important entities in a given tradition, reflecting the fact that death, like birth, is central to the human experience. In religions where a single...