Maternal death in fiction is a common theme encountered in literature, movies, and other media. The death of a mother during pregnancy, childbirth or immediately...

Maternal death or maternal mortality is defined in slightly different ways by several different health organizations. The World Health Organization (WHO)...

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...

Mortality salience is the awareness that one's death is inevitable. The term derives from terror management theory, which proposes the so-called mortality...

In epidemiology, the excess deaths or excess mortality is a measure of the increase in the number deaths during a time period and/or in a certain group...

general during the procession and remind him from time to time of his own mortality or prompt him to "look behind". A version of this warning is often rendered...

damage. Maternal death Miscarriage Neonatal intensive care unit Neonaticide Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day Stillbirth "Perinatal mortality rate...

Look up rigor mortis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rigor mortis (Latin: rigor "stiffness", and mortis "of death"), or postmortem rigidity, is the...

other reasons. Maternal mortality has additional challenges, especially as they pertain to stillbirths, abortions, and multiple births. In some countries...

that often occurs in someone who is near death. It is caused by an accumulation of fluids such as saliva and bronchial secretions in the throat and upper...

Child mortality is the mortality of children under the age of five. The child mortality rate (also under-five mortality rate) refers to the probability...

of gravity. The blood travels faster in warmer conditions and slower in colder conditions. Livor mortis starts in 20–30 minutes, but is usually not observable...

terminal erection is a post-mortem erection, technically a priapism, observed in the corpses of men who have been executed, particularly by hanging. The phenomenon...

The undead are beings in mythology, legend, or fiction that are deceased but behave as if alive. Most commonly the term refers to corporeal forms of formerly...

and is legal in a growing number of countries. Non-voluntary euthanasia occurs when a patient's consent is unavailable and is legal in some countries...

consistently show this effect; some studies find that men's and women's mortality rates diverge in the run-up to the birthday, while others find no significant gender...

Organization (WHO) in its International Classification of Diseases (ICD) diagnostic manual, as well as by the American Psychiatric Association in its Diagnostic...

documented in the writings of Origen of Alexandria in the 3rd century AD. The Classical Greek term was ἡ νέκυια (nekyia), from the episode of the Odyssey in which...

"certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth". Birth certificate Ghosting (identity theft) Marriage certificate Marriage license Mortality Medical Data System (MMDS)...

body of the person entombed. Coffins also serve as blunt reminders of mortality. Europeans were also seen to use coffins and cemeteries to symbolize the...

algor 'coldness', and mortis 'of death'), the third stage of death, is the change in body temperature post mortem, until the ambient temperature is matched. This...

the Right to Food, 2000 – Mar 2008, mortality due to malnutrition accounted for 58% of the total mortality rate in 2006. Ziegler says worldwide, approximately...

Infant mortality is the death of an infant before the infant's first birthday. The occurrence of infant mortality in a population can be described by...

Object of Desire: Victorian Commodity Culture and Fictions of the Mummy". Novel: A Forum on Fiction. 28 (1): 24–51. doi:10.2307/1345912. JSTOR 1345912...

movement in brain-dead or brainstem failure patients, which causes them to briefly raise their arms and drop them crossed on their chests (in a position...

are seen in a number of Buddhist countries, especially in South Asia where monks are mummified after dying of natural causes, it is only in Japan that...

diagnosed with a certain disease and end up dying of it. Unlike a disease's mortality rate, the CFR does not take into account the time period between disease...

The afterlife or life after death is a purported existence in which the essential part of an individual's stream of consciousness or identity continues...

publish peer-reviewed studies and essays of interest in the field. These include Death Studies, Mortality, Omega:Journal of Death & Dying, Journal of Loss...

of aging. Specifically it is the absence of a sustained increase in rate of mortality as a function of chronological age. A cell or organism that does...