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death

Permanent cessation of vital functions

Also known as bereft of life · perish · oblivion · mortis · fallen · meeting the Reaper

Instance of: end
, concept
, property
+1 more
Subclass of: occurrence

Overview

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Death is the end of an organism's life. It is the irreversible cessation of biological functions that sustain a living organism. Entropy, nature's tendency toward disorder, can contribute to the breakdown of living systems over time. Upon death, organisms stop exhibiting behavior and generally begin to decompose through various physical and chemical processes. Death can occur at any stage of development, including in infancy. A person may experience clinical death that is reversible, resulting in some cases in a near-death experience. In humans, establishing death of the brain determines that an individual has irreversibly died.

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192 statements · 11% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Members / parts: cell death
multi-organism process
single-organism process
philosophy of death
Opposite of: birth applies to part: occurrence
Different from: Tod criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: Tod
Death criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: death
Maut criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: maut
Döden criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: döden
Facet of: development of the human body
life
Properties for this type: point in time
manner of death
cause of death
location
Has part(s) of the class: date of death
place of death
cause of death
manner of death
Wikimedia outline: outline of death
Has immediate cause: dying
clinical death
Unicode character: 💀 statement is subject of: 💀
☠ statement is subject of: ☠
ICPC 2 ID: A96
Has characteristic: manner of death
cause of death
Has effect: dead
Studied by: sociology of death
forensic medicine
thanatology
philosophy of death
necrology
Cause: cause of death
homicide
suicide
Said to be the same as: brain death
Has list: Deaths in March 1975

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120 identifiers linking death across the web's reference databases

Data quality

192

statements

11%

externally sourced

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AIDB. (2026). death (Q4). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/death-Q4