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Obituaries, Death Notices, and Necrology
Death is the final equalizer, but how the living interpret and respond to death and how it is presented publicly is social and cultural. Some form of public notification of individual death is ...
- Death, Anthropological Perspectives
- Dance of Death (Danse Macabre)
- Abortion
- After-Death Communication
- African Beliefs and Traditions
- Adolescence and Death
- Body Disposition
- Caskets and the Casket Industry
- Coroner
- Angel Makers
- Appropriate Death
- Ancestor Veneration, Japanese
- Day of the Dead
- Altruistic Suicide
- Ariès's Social History of Death
- Banshee
- Death, Clinical Perspectives
- Death-Related Music
- Accidental Death
- Ambiguous Loss and Unresolved Grief
- American Indian Beliefs and Traditions
- Adulthood and Death
- Body Farms
- Clothing and Fashion, Death-Related
- Coroner's Jury
- Atrocities
- Art of Dying, The (Ars Moriendi)
- Angels
- Funeral Conveyances
- Assassination
- Bioethics, History of
- Curses and Hexes
- Death, Humanistic Perspectives
- Depictions of Death in Art Form
- Acute and Chronic Diseases
- Anniversary Reaction Phenomenon
- Ancient Egyptian Beliefs and Traditions
- Aging, the Elderly, and Death
- Burial, Paleolithic
- Commodification of Death
- Death Certificate
- Epidemics and Plagues
- Awareness of Death in Open and Closed Contexts
- Animism
- Funeral Music
- Assisted Suicide
- Cloning
- Death Superstitions
- Death, Philosophical Perspectives
- Depictions of Death in Sculpture and Architecture
- Alcohol Use and Death
- Bereavement, Grief, and Mourning
- Australian Aboriginal Beliefs and Traditions
- Appropriate Death
- Burial at Sea
- Cosmetic Restoration
- Death-Related Crime
- Famine
- Brain Death
- Apocalypse
- Funerals
- Death Squads
- Commodification of Death
- Frankenstein
- Death, Psychological Perspectives
- Depictions of Death in Television and the Movies
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Chronic Sorrow
- Chinese Death Taboos
- Childhood, Children, and Death
- Burial Insurance
- Cyberfunerals
- Economic Evaluation of Life
- Genocide
- Caregiver Stress
- Armageddon
- Funerals, Military
- Domestic Violence
- Cremation Movements
- Ghost Photography
- Death, Sociological Perspectives
- Elegy
- Anorexia and Bulimia
- Communal Bereavement
- Death Care Industry
- Databases
- Burial Laws
- Death Care Industry, Economics of
- Equivocal Death
- Holocaust
- Caregiving
- Atheism and Death
- Funerals, State
- Euthanasia
- Death, Philosophical Perspectives
- Ghosts
- Defining and Conceptualizing Death
- Literary Depictions of Death
- Autoerotic Asphyxia
- Communicating with the Dead
- Egyptian Perceptions of Death in Antiquity
- Demographic Transition Model
- Buried Alive
- Death Mask
- Estate Planning
- Massacres
- Deathbed Scene
- Baptism for the Dead
- Ghost Month
- Familicide
- Death Awareness Movement
- Halloween
- Eschatology
- Loved One, The
- Cancer and Oncology
- Condolences
- Funerals and Funeralization in Cross-Cultural Perspective
- Economic Evaluation of Life
- Cannibalism
- Death Notification Process
- Estate Tax
- Megadeath and Nuclear Annihilation
- Discretionary Death
- Buddhist Beliefs and Traditions
- Halloween
- Homicide
- Death Education
- Mythology
- Forensic Anthropology
- Museums of Death
- Capital Punishment
- Coping with the Loss of Loved Ones
- Kamikaze Pilots
- Economic Impact of Death on the Family
- Cemeteries
- Embalming
- Fatwa
- School Shootings
- End-of-Life Decision Making
- Christian Beliefs and Traditions
- Holidays of the Dead
- Honor Killings
- Death in the Future
- Witches
- Forensic Science
- Photography of the Dead
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Death Anxiety
- Mesoamerican Pre-Columbian Beliefs and Traditions
- Gender and Death
- Cemeteries, Ancient (Necropolises)
- Epitaphs
- Forensic Anthropology
- Terrorism, Domestic
- Halo Nurses Program
- Clergy
- Immortality
- Infanticide
- Death Superstitions
- Zombies, Revenants, Vampires, and Reanimated Corpses
- Medicalization of Death and Dying
- Popular Culture and Images of Death
- Causes of Death, Contemporary
- Death Education
- Social Functions of Death, Cross-Cultural Perspectives
- Infant Mortality
- Cemeteries, Pet
- Eulogy
- Forensic Science
- Terrorism, International
- Hospice, Contemporary
- Confucian Beliefs and Traditions
- Living a Legacy
- Lynching and Vigilante Justice
- Defining and Conceptualizing Death
- Thanatology
- Pornography, Portrayals of Death in
- Causes of Death, Historical Perspectives
- Denial of Death
- Suicide, Cross-Cultural Perspectives
- Life Cycle and Death
- Cemeteries, Unmarked Graves and Potter's Field
- Funeral Director
- Hate Crimes and Death Threats
- War Deaths
- Hospice, History of
- Daoist Beliefs and Traditions
- Memorial Day
- Manslaughter
- Demographic Transition Model
- Taxidermy
- Cult Deaths
- Disenfranchised Grief
- Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, The
- Life Expectancy
- Cemeteries, Virtual
- Funeral Home
- Inheritance
- Informed Consent
- Deities of Life and Death
- Mortuary Rites
- Mass Suicide
- Deviance, Dying as
- Video Games
- Databases
- Elegy
- Totemism
- Malthusian Theory of Population Growth
- Cemeteries and Columbaria, Military and Battlefield
- Funeral Industry
- Last Will and Testament
- Isolation
- Devil
- Mythology
- Neonaticide
- Disengagement Theory
- Wax Museums
- Death, Line of Duty
- Friends, Impact of Death of
- Middle Age and Death
- Columbarium
- Funeral Industry, Unethical Practices
- Legalities of Death
- KÜBler-Ross's Stages of Dying
- Eschatology
- Postself
- Psychache
- Economic Evaluation of Life
- Disasters, Man-Made
- Gold Star Mothers
- Mortality Rates, Global
- Cremation
- Mortuary Science Education
- Life Insurance
- Life Review
- Eschatology in Major Religious Traditions
- Sin Eating
- Serial Murder
- Economic Impact of Death on the Family
- Disasters, Natural
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mourning in Cross-Cultural Perspective
- Mortality Rates, U.S.
- Cryonics
- Obituaries, Death Notices, and Necrology
- Life Insurance Fraud
- Life Support Systems and Life-Extending Technologies
- Funerals and Funeralization in Major Religious Traditions
- Symbolic Immortality
- Sex and Death
- Freudian Theory
- Drug Use and Abuse
- Grief, Bereavement, and Mourning in Historical Perspective
- Race and Death
- Decomposition
- Pre-Need Arrangements
- Living Wills and Advance Directives
- Make-A-Wish Foundation
- Ghost Dance
- Symbols of Death and Memento Mori
- Sexual Homicide
- Good Death
- Dueling
- Grief, Types of
- Sex and Death
- Exhumation
- Medical Examiner
- Medicalization of Death and Dying
- Heaven
- Wakes and Visitation
- Suicide
- Language of Death
- Food Poisoning and Contamination
- Grief and Bereavement Counseling
- Social Class and Death
- Funeral Pyre
- Posthumous Reproduction
- Near-Death Experiences
- Hell
- Suicide Survivors
- Life Expectancy
- HIV/AIDS
- Grief and Dementia
- Grave Robbing
- Psychological Autopsy
- Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation
- Hindu Beliefs and Traditions
- Malthusian Theory of Population Growth
- Karoshi
- Humor and Fear of Death
- Green Burials
- Viatical Settlements
- Palliative Care
- Jewish Beliefs and Traditions
- Personifications of Death
- Medical Malpractice
- Instrumental Grieving: Gender Differences
- Mummies of Ancient Egypt
- Wrongful Death
- Pediatric Palliative Care
- Jihad
- Right-to-Die Movement
- Medical Mistakes
- Lamentations
- Mummification, Contemporary
- Persistent Vegetative State
- Last Judgment, The
- Stephenson's Historical Ages of Death in the United States
- Military Executions
- Memorials
- Necrophilia
- Quality of Life
- Martyrs and Martyrdom
- Terror Management Theory
- Miscarriage and Stillbirth
- Memorials, Quilts
- Neomort
- Resuscitation
- Muslim Beliefs and Traditions
- Thanatology
- Neonatal Deaths
- Memorials, Roadside
- Putrefaction Research
- Terminal Care
- Mythology
- Prison Deaths
- Memorials, War
- Second Burial
- Terminal Illness and Imminent Death
- Necromancy
- Spontaneous Combustion
- Missing in Action (MIA)
- Tomb of the Unknowns
- Reincarnation
- Subintentional Death
- Monuments
- Tombs and Mausoleums
- Resurrection
- Sudden Death
- Orphans
- Tombstones
- Shinto Beliefs and Traditions
- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
- Postself
- Soul
- Tobacco Use
- Spontaneous Shrines
- Spiritualist Movement
- War Deaths
- Suicide, Counseling and Prevention
- Spirituality
- Survivor Guilt
- Transcending Death
- Widows and Widowers
- Valhalla
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