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Thanatosensitivity

Approach to research that seeks to incorporate death into design

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Sisterhood method

Survey estimating maternal deaths

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Death education

Instruction on issues relating to death

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Death rattle

Sound often produced as someone nears death

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Dead pool

Game which involves guessing when someone will die

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Outline of death

Permanent end of an organism's life

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Death

End of an organism's life

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Burial vault (enclosure)

Container that encloses a coffin

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Gibbeting

Display of executed criminals from a gallows-type structure

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Dugu ceremony
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Filial mourning

Imperial China bureaucratic practice

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Catafalque

Raised bier to display a body or casket

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Cooling board

Funeral preparation platform

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Toe tag

Tag of a dead person in a morgue, used for identification purposes

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Last offices

Procedures carried out after a person dies

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Obituary poetry

Art of creating poems that commemorate a person's or group of people's deaths

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Heart-burial

Type of burial in which the heart is interred apart from the body

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Mortsafe

Contraption for protecting graves

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Potter's field

Burial place for unknown or indigent people

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Viewing (funeral)

Funeral custom

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National day of mourning

Day marked by mourning and memorial activities

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Maschalismos

Preventing the undead from rising

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State funeral

Ceremony for nationally significant people

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Lying in state

Public funerary custom

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Crematorium

Machine or building in which cremation takes place

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Water cremation

Body decomposition process

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Chamber tumulus

Megalithic structure

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Death messenger

Person who reports news of a death

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Funeral prayer (Islam)

Islamic prayer in congregation during a funeral

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Professional mourning

Mourning in exchange for money

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Museum of Funeral Customs

Museum in Springfield, Illinois, U.S.

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Living funeral

Funeral held for a living person

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Setting the features

Part of funeral procedures

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Jangnye

Korean funerary rites

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Gravedigger

Cemetery worker responsible for digging a grave

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Lying in repose

Public funerary custom

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Death in Norse paganism

Ideas concerning death and the afterlife in Norse pagan belief systems

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List of death deities

Divine beings associated with death

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Libitina

Roman deity

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Degei

Fijian god

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Mors (mythology)

Personification of death in Roman mythology

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Erlik

God of the underworld in Turkic and Mongolic mythology

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Death hoax

False report of a person's death

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Ustrinum

Cremation site in the Roman Empire

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Icelandic funeral

Funerary traditions and practices in Iceland

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Suicide in Kazakhstan

none

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Cremation in Romania

None

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Death in Singapore

Aspect of society and culture

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Suicide in Sri Lanka

none

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Suicide in Ukraine

none

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