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  2. List of English-language expressions related to death

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    Final reckoning, just deserts after death Go to one's watery grave [1] To die of drowning: Literary: Go to a Texas cakewalk [11] To be hanged Unknown Go the way of all flesh [2] To die Neutral Go west [2] To be killed or lost Informal Refers to the sun setting at the west. The Grim Reaper [2] Personification of death Cultural

  3. Livor mortis - Wikipedia

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    Livor mortis (from Latin līvor 'bluish color, bruise' and mortis 'of death'), postmortem lividity (from Latin post mortem 'after death' and lividitas 'black and blueness'), hypostasis (from Greek ὑπό (hypo) 'under, beneath' and στάσις (stasis) 'a standing') [1] [2] or suggillation, is the second stage of death and one of the signs of ...

  4. List of mortuary customs - Wikipedia

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    Posthumous name is an honorary name given to royalty, nobles, and sometimes others, in East Asia after the person's death, and is used almost exclusively instead of one's personal name or other official titles; Posthumous promotion is an advancement in rank or position in the case of a person who is dead. Posthumous promotions are most often ...

  5. Viewing (funeral) - Wikipedia

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    Viewing (museum display) Museum of Funeral Customs. In death customs, a viewing (sometimes referred to as reviewal, calling hours, funeral visitation in the United States and Canada) is the time that family and friends come to see the deceased before the funeral, once the body has been prepared by a funeral home. [1]

  6. Psychopomp - Wikipedia

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    The spirits, who traditionally wait at the foot of the death-bed, retrieve (Tagalog: sundô) the soul soon after death and escort it into the after-life. [ 11 ] In Akan religion , Amokye is the woman who fishes souls out of the river and welcomes them to Asamando, the Akan realm of the dead.

  7. After Death (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Life after death (disambiguation) Anno Domini (AD), a Latin phrase indicating years after the estimated birth of Jesus, often mistaken to mean "after death" Acharei Mot (Hebrew: after [the] death), the 29th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading; Resurrection of the dead; World to come; All pages with titles containing ...

  8. Rigor mortis - Wikipedia

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    Rigor mortis [a] (from Latin rigor 'stiffness' and mortis 'of death'), or postmortem rigidity, is the fourth stage of death.It is one of the recognizable signs of death, characterized by stiffening of the limbs of the corpse caused by chemical changes in the muscles postmortem (mainly calcium). [1]

  9. Purgatory - Wikipedia

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    Purgatory (Latin: purgatorium, borrowed into English via Anglo-Norman and Old French) [1] is a passing intermediate state after physical death for purifying or purging a soul. A common analogy is dross being removed from gold in a furnace.