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Usually referring to the death of a pet, especially if the owners are parents of young children e.g. "The dog was sent to a farm." Sewerslide To commit suicide Humorous 21st-century slang. Likely invented to circumvent internet censorship. Shade The state of death Euphemism
Starting in the summer of 2015 and continuing into the spring of 2016, about 62,000 dead or dying birds were found on Pacific Ocean beaches from California to Alaska. Some researchers believe that as many as one million common murres may have died in the massive die-off. [25]
Leading cause of death (2016) (world) The following is a list of the causes of human deaths worldwide for different years arranged by their associated mortality rates. In 2002, there were about 57 million deaths.
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions , structural fires , flood disasters , coal mine disasters , and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture , planning , construction , design , and more.
Train collision along upper Delaware River. Official death toll is 65. 60 1886 1886 Charleston earthquake: Earthquake South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, East coast of the United States: $5,000,000–6,000,000 Massive earthquake starting in South Carolina, spreading across the East Coast of the US. 60 1966 Hurricane Inez: Tropical cyclone
In May 2020, the Human Mortality Database project launched a new data series, the Short-term Mortality Fluctuation series (STMF), offering freely available weekly death counts by age and sex for a growing number of countries (34 in October 2020), as well as a visualization tool that captures the excess mortality on a weekly basis. The STMF was ...
Death toll (estimate) Event Location Date Pathogen − (disease caused) 1. 75–200 million [27] Black Death: Europe, Asia and North Africa: 1346–1353 Yersinia pestis − 2. 50 million+ (17–100 million) [28] [29] Spanish flu: Worldwide: 1918–1920 Influenza A virus subtype H1N1 − (Influenza/"the flu") 3. 43 million (as of 2024) [30] HIV ...
Vital statistics generally distinguish specific injuries and diseases as cause of death, from general categories like homicide, accident, and death by natural causes as manner of death. Both are listed in this category, as are both proximal and root causes of death. An injury that could be fatal is called major trauma; see also Category:Injuries.