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    "Death panel" is a political term that originated during the 2009 debate about federal health care legislation to cover the uninsured in the United States...
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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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    would create a "death panel". Emanuel said that Palin's death panel statement was "Orwellian". Palin later said that her death panel remark had been "vindicated"...
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    Death Panel is a leftist podcast focusing on the political economy of health. It was founded in November 2018 by Artie Vierkant, Beatrice Adler-Bolton...
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    unusual deaths, unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources. The death of Aeschylus...
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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 rattle is noisy breathing that often occurs in someone near death. Accumulation of fluids such as saliva and bronchial secretions in the throat...
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  • physicians who make this diagnosis." In 2020, an international panel of experts, the World Brain Death Project, published a guideline that: provides recommendations...
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    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...
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    Death is the end of life; the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. The remains of a former organism normally...
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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 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...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Jackie (August 14, 2009). "False 'Death Panel' Rumor Has Some Familiar Roots". The New York Times. "Neurological 'Death Panels'?". FactCheck.org. January 5...
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  • 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...
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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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    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 be provided...
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  • 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...
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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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  • 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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    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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    The Triumph of Death is an oil panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder painted c. 1562. It has been in the Museo del Prado in Madrid since 1827. The...
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    suicide (PAS), "physician-assisted dying", "physician-assisted death", "assisted death" and "medical aid in dying" (MAiD). Assisted suicide is similar...
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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 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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  • Sokushinbutsu (category Death in Japan)
    to the practice of Buddhist monks observing asceticism to the point of death and entering mummification while alive. Although mummified monks are seen...
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