Museum of Death is a museum with locations on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, and New Orleans. It was established in June 1995 by J. D...

known are the death masks of Nicholas I, and Alexander I. Stalin's death mask is on display at the Stalin Museum in Gori, Georgia. One of the first real...

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

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...

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

declares the 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

mythology or religion of most cultures incorporate a god of death or, more frequently, a divine being closely associated with death, an afterlife, or an...

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...

presumption of death occurs when a person is believed to be dead, despite the absence of direct proof of the person's death, such as the finding of remains...

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 of many...

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...

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...

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...

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

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 anxiety is anxiety caused by thoughts of one's own death, and is also known as thanatophobia (fear of death). Individuals affected by this kind...

of death is an official determination of the conditions resulting in a human's death, which may be recorded on a death certificate. A cause of death is...

is a list of words and phrases related to death in alphabetical order. While some of them are slang, others euphemize the unpleasantness of the subject...

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...

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 being...

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...

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...

A near-death experience (NDE) is a profound personal experience associated with death or impending death, which researchers describe as having similar...

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 the causes of human deaths worldwide for different years arranged by their associated mortality rates. In 2002, there were about 57 million deaths...