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Spontaneous combustion occurs when an object self-ignites. The cause may be chemical, as when lithium oxidizes explosively in water, or biological, as when a haystack catches fire due to heat generated ...
- 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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