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death
Also known as bereft of life, perish, oblivion, mortis, fallen, meeting the Reaper, deaths, succumbs
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Death is the permanent end of biological functions that sustain a living organism, symbolized across cultures by objects like the skull. It matters because understanding death relates to fundamental human concerns about mortality, time, and the meaning of life, as reflected in historical art and cultural symbolism.
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Research
1,399,307 papers- Place of death and associated factors among reviewed maternal deaths in Ethiopia: a generalised structural equation modelling.ReviewBMJ open · 2023Tesfay N, Tariku R, Zenebe A et al.DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-060933
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- Sudden death of feedlot cattle.ReviewJournal of animal science · 1998Glock RD, DeGroot BDDOI: 10.2527/1998.761315x
- Global and regional causes of maternal deaths 2009-20: a WHO systematic analysis.The Lancet. Global health · 2025Cresswell JA, Alexander M, Chong MYC et al.
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45 sectionsContents
- Background
- Definition<!-- Changed to "Definition", see 2023 GAN -->
- Defining life to define death
- Definition of death by heartbeat and breath
- Brain death
- Neocortical brain death
- Total brain death
- United States
- Problems in medical practice
- Legal issues
- Donations
- Signs
- Causes
- Autopsy
- Misdiagnosis
- Death before birth
- Stillbirth
- Miscarriage
- Abortion
- Related issues
- Senescence
- Life extension
- Cryonics
- Afterlife
- Psychology
- Society and culture
- Place of death
- Origins of death in mythology
- In biology
- Natural selection
- Evolution of aging and mortality
- Grief in animals
- Cell death
- Religious views
- Buddhism
- Christianity
- Hinduism
- Islam
- Judaism
- Language
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
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Death is the end of life. It is the irreversible cessation of biological functions that sustain a living organism; however, the identification of the moment of death presents certain difficulties. Some organisms, such as the immortal jellyfish, are biologically immortal, they can however still die from means other than the effects of aging.
