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This is a list of words and phrases related to death in alphabetical order. While some of them are slang, others euphemize the unpleasantness of the subject, or are used in formal contexts. Some of the phrases may carry the meaning of 'kill', or simply contain words related to death. Most of them are idioms
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Suicide, intentionally causing one's own death. Altruistic suicide, suicide for the benefit of others. Autocide, suicide by automobile collision. Medicide, a suicide accomplished with the aid of a physician. Murder-suicide, a suicide committed immediately after one or more murders. Self-immolation, suicide by fire, often as a form of protest.
Aliveness, also referred to as alive training, [1] describes martial arts training methods that are spontaneous, non-scripted, and dynamic. Alive training is performed with the intent to win, rather than for mastery or demonstration purposes as in regular sparring, where victory is not an option.
The mythology or religion of most cultures incorporate a god of death or, more frequently, a divine being closely associated with death, an afterlife, or an underworld. They are often amongst the most powerful and important entities in a given tradition, reflecting the fact that death, like birth , is central to the human experience.
Hieronymus Bosch's 1500 painting The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things.The four outer discs depict (clockwise from top left) Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell. In Christian eschatology, the Four Last Things (Latin: quattuor novissima) [1] are Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell, the four last stages of the soul in life and the afterlife.
In Scandinavia, Norse mythology personified death in the shape of Hel, the goddess of death and ruler over the realm of the same name, where she received a portion of the dead. [9] In the times of the Black Plague , Death would often be depicted as an old woman known by the name of Pesta, meaning "plague hag", wearing a black hood.
"You are a lyer; [114] [115] I am no more a Witch than you are a Wizard, and if you take away my Life, God will give you Blood to drink." [ 114 ] [ 115 ] [ 116 ] — Sarah Good , American woman accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials (29 July [ O.S. 19 July] 1692), to Reverend Nicholas Noyes prior to execution by hanging [ note 100 ]