Preventable causes of death are causes of death related to risk factors which could have been avoided. The World Health Organization has traditionally...

ultimate causes, see preventable causes of death. Besides frequency, other measures to compare, consider, and monitor trends of causes of deaths include...

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history, doctors who lacked the ability to understand causes of death attributed unknown causes to "old age." With modern medicine and medical machinery...

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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result of friendly fire. Death by misadventure List of accidents and disasters by death toll Preventable causes of death List of unusual deaths Manslaughter...

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...

millions of people die of preventable causes. A 2004 study showed that about half of all deaths in the United States in 2000 were due to preventable behaviors...

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...

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

he causes eclipses by trying to eat the Sun or the Moon. Shingon (nat) (Burmese) Thongalel (Manipuri mythology) Pong Lalondong (Toraja), god of death Tagbayan...

Other causes of death may also result in these effects, including fatal gunshots to the head, damage to major blood vessels, and violent death by poisoning...

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...

major causes of death. Selye proposed a unified non-specific approach to many causes of death. He demonstrated that stress decreases the adaptability of an...

after the age of 5 these preventable causes level out between high and low-income countries.[citation needed] Biodemography Compensation law of mortality...

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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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

after death. Calcium is released into the cytosol due to the deterioration of the sarcoplasmic reticulum. Also, the breakdown of the sarcolemma causes additional...

classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the death drive (German: Todestrieb) is the drive toward death and destruction, often expressed through behaviors...

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...

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

Causes of death by rate Potential causes of death Global catastrophic risks – Preventable causes of death Effects of the anticipation of death Death anxiety...

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....

Georgia's maternal mortality committee determined that Thurman's death was preventable and noted that the voluntary delay in performing the dilation and...