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  2. Terminal dehydration - Wikipedia

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    Terminal dehydration is dehydration to the point of death. Some scholars make a distinction between "terminal dehydration" and "termination by dehydration". [ 1 ] Courts in the United States [ 2 ] generally do not recognize prisoners as having a right to die by voluntary dehydration, since they view it as suicide .

  3. Death anxiety - Wikipedia

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    Death anxiety is anxiety caused by thoughts of one's own death, and is also known as thanatophobia (fear of death). [1] This anxiety can significantly impact various aspects of a person's life. [ 2 ] Death anxiety is different from necrophobia , which refers to an irrational or disproportionate fear of dead bodies or of anything associated with ...

  4. Death and adjustment hypotheses - Wikipedia

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    One definition of death anxiety is a "feeling of dread, apprehension or solicitude (anxiety) when one thinks of the process of dying, or ceasing to ‘be’". [15] It is also referred to as thanatophobia (fear of death), and is distinguished from necrophobia , which is a specific fear of dead or dying persons and/or things (i.e. others who are ...

  5. Terror management theory - Wikipedia

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    Such studies have shown that reminders of death lead to increases in compulsive handwashing in obsessive-compulsive disorder, [46] avoidance in spider phobias and social anxiety, [47] and anxious behaviors in other disorders, including panic disorder and health anxiety, [48] suggesting the role of death anxiety in these conditions according to ...

  6. Terminal lucidity - Wikipedia

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    Terminal lucidity (also known as rallying, terminal rally, the rally, end-of-life-experience, energy surge, the surge, or pre-mortem surge) [1] is an unexpected return of consciousness, mental clarity or memory shortly before death in individuals with severe psychiatric or neurological disorders.

  7. Terminal illness - Wikipedia

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    Coping with impending death is a hard topic to digest universally. Patients may experience grief, fear, loneliness, depression, and anxiety among many other possible responses. Terminal illness can also lend patients to become more prone to psychological illness such as depression and anxiety disorders. Insomnia is a common symptom of these. [3]

  8. Anxiety buffer disruption theory - Wikipedia

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    Since the threat of death is inescapable, the support from those close to us make may make the thought of death more tolerable by giving meaning to our lives by being important to others. [9] As other anxiety buffers, interpersonal relationships are damaged as well in individuals with post traumatic stress disorder.

  9. Post-mortem chemistry - Wikipedia

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    For example, high levels of urea can indicate kidney damage. High levels of cortisol, the hormone released under stress, could indicate a violent death. Creatinine is stable post-mortem, so the concentration at death is preserved. This is also helpful to determine the kidney function of an individual.