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  2. Death and culture - Wikipedia

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    In English law, administration of an estate on death arises if the deceased is legally intestate. In United States law, the term Estate Administration is used. When a person dies leaving a will appointing an executor , and that executor validly disposes of the property of the deceased, then the estate will go to probate .

  3. Western Attitudes Toward Death from the Middle Ages to the ...

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    When death occurs a child is told the deceased are "resting" and every effort is made to distract them from the truth. [18] Ariès also argues that the prevalence of cremation in Britain and parts of Europe reflects the western world's denial of death. He states that the act of cremation, with its usual lack of formality, associated rituals ...

  4. Eternal oblivion - Wikipedia

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    For Clark, in oblivion there is even an absence of experience, as we can only speak of experience when a subjective self exists. According to neuroscientist Giulio Tononi, consciousness is "all we are and all we have: lose consciousness and, as far as you are concerned, your own self and the entire world dissolve into nothingness." [18]

  5. Problem of Hell - Wikipedia

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    So we see where the grave or death or eventual destruction of the wicked, was translated using Greek words that since they had no exact ones to use, became a mix of mistranslation, pagan influence, and Greek myth associated with the word, but its original meaning was simple death or the destruction of the wicked at the end.

  6. Why is the death penalty still used? Let's look at the pros ...

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    Why do we still administer the death penalty? Apologists argue that it is valuable as a deterrent and essential for maintaining public safety. They may see it as a cheap alternative to a lifetime ...

  7. Dying declaration - Wikipedia

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    In medieval English courts, the principle originated of Nemo moriturus praesumitur mentiri — "no-one on the point of death should be presumed to be lying". [1] An incident in which a dying declaration was admitted as evidence has been found in the 1202 case of Geoffrey v Goddard. [2] [3]

  8. Meaning of life - Wikipedia

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    The first English use of the expression "meaning of life" appears in Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), book II chapter IX, "The Everlasting Yea". [1]Our Life is compassed round with Necessity; yet is the meaning of Life itself no other than Freedom, than Voluntary Force: thus have we a warfare; in the beginning, especially, a hard-fought battle.

  9. 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 ...