Flashcards: Death

A person may be legally declared dead (declared death in absentia or legal presumption of death) despite the absence of direct proof of the person's death, such as the finding of remains (e.g., a corpse or skeleton) attributable to that person.

Death, also known as the Grim Reaper, is a common element in culture and history.

The Biological timeline of radiation poisoning describes the phenomenon where, following a dose of ionizing radiation, a person may have a period of apparent health, lasting for days or weeks, despite a terminal illness.

Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), also known as cot death or crib death, is the sudden unexplained death of a child less than one year of age.

Find a Grave is a commercial website that allows the public to access and add to an online database of cemetery records.

A grave is a location where a dead body (typically that of a human, although sometimes that of an animal) is buried.

Posthumous marriage (or necrogamy) is a marriage in which one of the participating members is deceased.

Immortality is eternal life, the ability to live forever.

Body snatching is the secret disinterment of corpses from graveyards or other burial sites.

An autopsy—also known as a post-mortem examination, necropsy, or autopsia cadaverum —is a highly specialized surgical procedure that consists of a thorough examination of a corpse by dissection to determine the cause and manner of death and to evaluate any disease or injury that may be present.

In classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the death drive (German: Todestrieb) is the drive towards death and self-destruction.

Dead on arrival (DOA), also dead in the field and brought in dead (BID), is a term used to indicate that a patient was found to be already clinically dead upon the arrival of professional medical assistance, often in the form of first responders such as emergency medical technicians, paramedics, or police.

A pest house, plague house, pesthouse or fever shed was a type of building used for persons afflicted with communicable diseases such as tuberculosis, cholera, smallpox or typhus.

Since humankind first domesticated animals, the death of a pet or an animal to which one has become emotionally bonded can be an intense loss, comparable with the death of a human loved one, or even greater depending on the individual.

The birthday effect (sometimes called the birthday blues, especially when referring specifically to suicide) is a statistical phenomenon where an individual's likelihood of death appears to increase on or close to their birthday.

Death anxiety is the morbid, abnormal, or persistent fear of one's own mortality.

Brain death is the complete and irreversible loss of brain function (including involuntary activity necessary to sustain life).

A dead pool, also known as a death pool, is a game of prediction which involves guessing when someone will die.

Consciousness after death is a common theme in society and culture in the context of life after death.

Deathbed phenomena refers to a range of paranormal experiences claimed by people who are dying.