• Legal 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...
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  • medically distinguish these differing conditions. Brain death is used as an indicator of legal death in many jurisdictions, but it is defined inconsistently...
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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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    considered entirely dead. Brain death is sometimes used as a legal definition of death. For all organisms with a brain, death can instead be focused on this...
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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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    Zone of Death". Atlas Obscura. "Sixth Amendment". Legal Information Institute. Retrieved December 4, 2020. "Inside Yellowstone's 'Zone of Death' Crimes...
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    (also letters or notices) are warnings of a death threat or high risk of murder issued by British police or legal authorities to the possible victim. They...
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  • The stages of death of a human being have medical, biochemical and legal aspects. The term taphonomy from palaeontology applies to the fate of all kinds...
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  • because she was pregnant. Look up clinical death in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Death Brain death Legal death Cardiac arrest Deep hypothermic circulatory...
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    jurisdictions have different legal standards for obtaining such declaration and in some jurisdictions a presumption of death may arise after a person has...
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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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  • offense in states where execution is a legal penalty, the judge will give the jury the option of imposing a death sentence or life imprisonment without...
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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 certificate is either a legal document issued by a medical practitioner which states when a person died, or a document issued by a government...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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 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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    do not directly cause the individual's death. Physician-assisted suicide, or "medical aid in dying", is legal in eleven jurisdictions: California, Colorado...
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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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