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  2. Clinical death - Wikipedia

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    The prognosis is improved if clinical death is caused by hypothermia rather than occurring prior to it; in 1999, 29-year-old Swedish woman Anna Bågenholm spent 80 minutes trapped in ice and survived with a near full recovery from a 13.7 °C core body temperature. It is said in emergency medicine that "nobody is dead until they are warm and dead."

  3. Racial trauma - Wikipedia

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    Racial trauma, or race-based traumatic stress, is the cumulative effects of racism on an individual’s mental and physical health. [1] It has been observed in numerous BIPOC communities and people of all ages, including young children.

  4. Mentally ill people in United States jails and prisons

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    Bureaucratic and legal impediments to initiating mental health referrals mean arrest can be easier, and in Taplin's words, "Due to the lack of exclusionary criteria, the criminal justice system may have become the institution that cannot say no." [23] Mentally ill people do indeed experience higher arrest rates than those without mental illness ...

  5. Stages of human death - Wikipedia

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    Signs of death or strong indications that a human is no longer alive are: Respiratory arrest (no breathing); Cardiac arrest (no pulse); Brain death (no neuronal activity); The heart and lungs are vital organs for human life due to their ability to properly oxygenate human blood (lungs) and distribute this blood to all vital organs (heart).

  6. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    Even when purchased on the black market, regardless of the intentions of the user, the medication works as intended — as harm reduction. One 22-year-old woman addicted to Percocet told researchers in that 2011 report that the stigma of medical treatment for addiction motivated her to buy buprenorphine on the black market.

  7. Liberation psychology - Wikipedia

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    The interconnectedness of the personal and political, a fundamental tenet of liberation psychology, is central to black psychology. [31] Furthermore, black psychology is thought of as inherently liberationist as it argues that addressing the psychology of black persons necessitates understanding, and addressing, the history and sociopolitical ...

  8. Legal death - Wikipedia

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    In most cases, a doctor's declaration of death (variously called) or the identification of a corpse is a legal requirement for such recognition. A person who has been missing for a sufficiently long period of time (typically at least several years) may be presumed or declared legally dead, usually by a court.

  9. Racial and ethnic misclassification in the United States

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    In the example of White individuals, who are a numerical majority in the U.S., White features and likeness can be easily observed in spaces where White people are present as well as in media such as television, movies, and advertisements.