Death

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the proportion of deaths from an infectious disease compared to the number of diagnosed cases

behavior in which animals take on the appearance of being dead

anxiety caused by thoughts of death

help to die

concept from Freudian psychoanalytics

Lethality (also called deadliness or perniciousness) is how capable something is of causing death. Most often it is used when referring to diseases, chemical weapons, biological weapons, or their toxic chemical components. The use of this term denotes the ability of these weapons to kill, but also the possibility that they may not kill. Reasons for the lethality of a weapon to be inconsistent, or expressed by percentage, can be as varied as minimized exposure to the weapon, previous exposure to the weapon minimizing susceptibility, degradation of the weapon over time and/or distance, and incor

sound often produced by someone who is near death when fluids such as saliva and bronchial secretions accumulate in the throat and upper chest

social and evolutionary psychology theory

public health measurements

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process of life's end in which control is mantained and suffering is avoided

phenomenon where one is more likely to die on or close to one’s birthday

destruction of information within a human brain such that recovery of the original person is theoretically impossible

Apeirophobia () (from ) is the specific phobia of infinity, eternity, endlessness, or the uncountable and is also known as the fear of infinity, the fear of eternity, or the fear of endlessness, causing discomfort and sometimes panic attacks from intrusive thoughts of the infinity. It normally starts in adolescence or earlier and it is currently not known how it normally develops over time. Apeirophobia may be caused by existential dread about eternal life or oblivion following death. Due to this, it is often connected with thanatophobia (the phobia of death), chronophobia (the phobia of time

characteristic posture of dinosaur and bird fossils

type of award; award that is generally presented after the death of the award recipient

estimate of the average years a person would have lived if they had not died prematurely

Instruction on issues relating to death

building used for persons afflicted with communicable diseases

game of prediction which involves guessing when someone will die

In the Vajrayana tradition of Tibetan Buddhism, tukdam (, Wylie: ) is a meditative state said to occur after clinical death, in which the body shows minimal signs of decomposition, retaining a lifelike appearance for days or even weeks. Practitioners are believed by Buddhists to be in a profound state of meditation, merging their consciousness with the Clear Light. Buddhist tradition considers that is available to all people, but only the expert practitioners of meditation, when dying, can recognize it and use it for spiritual purposes.