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