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  2. Stages of human death - Wikipedia

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    These changes can generally be divided between early post-mortem changes and late post-mortem changes (also known as decomposition). [12] These changes occur along a continuum and can be helpful in determining the post-mortem interval, which is the time between death and examination. The stages that follow shortly after death are:

  3. Ars moriendi - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, in a similar vein as the explained double meaning use of the word, "will" in the earlier phrases, it seems again that Ars Moriendi and thus, The Book as well, are reaffirming and popularizing the legal-like attributes that then construct the good death tradition.

  4. Personifications of death - Wikipedia

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    Because the word śmierć is feminine in gender, death is frequently portrayed as a skeletal old woman, as depicted in 15th-century dialogue "Rozmowa Mistrza Polikarpa ze Śmiercią" (Latin: "Dialogus inter Mortem et Magistrum Polikarpum"). In Serbia and other South Slavic countries, the Grim Reaper is well known as Smrt ("Death") or Kosač ...

  5. Death - Wikipedia

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    The human skull is used universally as a symbol of death. Death is the end of life ; the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism.

  6. List of English-language expressions related to death

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    Based on the original meaning of the phrase of taking the path of least resistance. Take the last train to glory [2] To die Euphemism: An idiom Christian in origin. Tango Uniform [citation needed] Dead, irreversibly broken Military slang

  7. Sirenian Shores - Wikipedia

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    It includes a remix of "Save Me from Myself" (from the second album An Elixir for Existence), an acoustic version of "Meridian" (from the first album At Sixes and Sevens), and three new songs: "Sirenian Shores", "Obire Mortem" and a cover of Leonard Cohen's "First We Take Manhattan".

  8. Memento mori - Wikipedia

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    In English, the phrase is typically pronounced / m ə ˈ m ɛ n t oʊ ˈ m ɔːr i /, mə-MEN-toh MOR-ee.. Memento is the second-person singular active future imperative of meminī, 'to remember, to bear in mind', usually serving as a warning: "remember!"

  9. Cadaver - Wikipedia

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    Corpses of Parisian Communards. A cadaver, often known as a corpse, is a dead human body.Cadavers are used by medical students, physicians and other scientists to study anatomy, identify disease sites, determine causes of death, and provide tissue to repair a defect in a living human being.