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  2. List of English-language expressions related to death

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    Synonym for death Neutral Pop one's clogs [2] To die Humorous, [1] Informal [2] British. "Pop" is English slang for "pawn." A 19th-century working man might tell his family to take his clothes to the pawn shop to pay for his funeral, with his clogs among the most valuable items. Promoted to Glory: Death of a Salvationist: Formal Salvation Army ...

  3. Roget's Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    The original edition had 15,000 words and each successive edition has been larger, [3] with the most recent edition (the eighth) containing 443,000 words. [6] The book is updated regularly and each edition is heralded as a gauge to contemporary terms; but each edition keeps true to the original classifications established by Roget. [2]

  4. List of botched executions - Wikipedia

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    He contorted and gurgled before asphyxiating to death. [11] Paula Angel (1861) - Hanging. No gallows were available, so she was instead tied to a cottonwood tree and placed on a wagon attached to a team of horses. Antonio Abad Herrera, the county sheriff and executioner, didn't want to tie her arms, so when the wagon began moving she was able ...

  5. What does it mean to commute an execution? Here's what ... - AOL

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    As of January 2024, there were nearly 2,200 prisoners facing the death penalty in state cases, according to the center, which states the death row population has been declining over the last 20 years.

  6. Death drive - Wikipedia

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    Nevertheless, the concept has been defended, extended, and carried forward by some analysts, generally those tangential to the psychoanalytic mainstream; while among the more orthodox, arguably of "those who, in contrast to most other analysts, take Freud's doctrine of the death drive seriously, K. R. Eissler has been the most persuasive—or ...

  7. Near-death experience - Wikipedia

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    Most of these near-death experiences resulted from serious injury affecting the body or brain. [43] A number of more contemporary sources report the incidence of near death experiences as: 17% amongst critically ill patients, in nine prospective studies from four different countries. [44] 10–20% of people who have come close to death. [11]

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  9. Way Forward - Wikipedia

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    Way Forward may refer to: Conservative Way Forward, a British campaigning group within the Conservative Party; The Way Forward, Ford Motor Company's restructuring plan made public in 2006; WayForward, an American video game development company