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  2. Suicide terminology - Wikipedia

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    Suicide-related behaviors comprise self-harm, self-inflicted unintentional death, undetermined suicide-related behaviors, self-inflicted death with undetermined intent, suicide attempt, and suicide. Self-harm is self-inflicted, potentially injurious behavior for which there is evidence that the person had no intent to die.

  3. Thanatology - Wikipedia

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    Thanatology is the scientific study of death and the losses brought about as a result. It investigates the mechanisms and forensic aspects of death, such as bodily changes that accompany death and the postmortem period, as well as wider psychological and social aspects related to death. It is primarily an interdisciplinary study offered as a ...

  4. Social death - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] Social death is defined by "three aspects: a loss of social identity, a loss of social connectedness and losses associated with disintegration of the body." [4] Examples of social death are: Racial and gender exclusion, persecution, slavery, and apartheid. [5] [6] [7] Governments can exclude individuals or groups from society.

  5. Sociology of death - Wikipedia

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    The sociology of death (sometimes known as sociology of death, dying and bereavement or death sociology) explores and examines the relationships between society and death. These relationships can include religious , cultural , philosophical , family , to behavioural insights among many others. [ 1 ]

  6. Terror management theory - Wikipedia

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    Essentially, the DTA hypothesis states that if individuals are motivated to avoid cognitions about death, and they avoid these cognitions by espousing a worldview or by buffering their self-esteem, then when threatened, an individual should possess more death-related cognitions (e.g., thoughts about death, and death-related stimuli) than they ...

  7. Mortality salience - Wikipedia

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    Another study found that mortality salience could cause an increase in support for martyrdom and military intervention. It found that students who reflected on their mortality preferred people who supported martyrdom, and indicated they might consider martyrdom themselves.

  8. List of English-language expressions related to death

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    Military code word used in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet states referring to the transportation of military casualties Cark-it [4] To die Informal, another version of 'croaked it'; common in UK, Ireland, Australia & New Zealand The guy was running, had a heart attack and carked it. Cash in one's chips [2] To die Informal, euphemistic [5]

  9. List of causes of death by rate - Wikipedia

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    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.