Article: Definitions of Death
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying;      700+ words ......The three primary usages are: death as an event; death as a condition; and death as...of existence or nonexistence. Death as an event. In this usage, death is something that happens. As an event, death occurs at a particular time...

Article: Death and Dying
The Oxford Companion to United States History;      700+ words ......the first stage, death was a religious and communal event, part of a shared...experience. In the second, death was a medical event, isolated and hidden...believe.” Death in antebellum New England was a communal event. The dying person...

Article: Death is most natural thing in the world: a world with no room for death has no room for a meaningful life.(Column)
National Catholic Reporter;  July 26, 1996 ;     700+ words ......labor that consumes us. It is the very palpable presence of death itself in our midst, sucking our energy like a vortex...and an eye dropper of water a day? He has been fighting death every step. His once powerful frame--the muscles of an...of such mortality, we tend to forget that the reign of death is ...

Article: 'Mors viva': literary renderings of life-to-death transitions.
The Modern Language Review;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......fading, fading, fading. (6) This refutation of subjective death--of death both as subject and as sentient process--unravels itself...very moment she denies it, instantiating the blankness of death by means of Plato-culled dreams, eschatological 'last things...shades. The same aporia unseals her further ...

Article: Atom Egoyan's The sweet hereafter: death, Canadian style.
Take One;  September 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ......characteristic. In American movies, death tends to be an event, either a cathartic punch...and the only fate worse than death in contemporary Hollywood...as the Canadian cinema, but death is recurrent enough to feel like one. The death which defines the quality...Antoine is an off--screen ...

Article: Death, Canadian style: Atom Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter.(Reprint)
Take One;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......characteristic. In American movies, death tens to be an event, either a cathartic punch...and the only fate worse than death in contemporary Hollywood...living, the physical fact of death is pretty well irrelevant...enough to feel like one. The death that defines the quality of...Antoine is ...

Article: death
The Oxford Companion to the Body;      700+ words ......animal that had been decapitated also challenged concepts of death, by dramatizing the distinction between the death of an organism and the death of its component parts. The guillotine, invented by a doctor...many eighteenth-century medical writers concluded that death was not a single ...

Article: Time waits for no one: the death of a litigant.
Florida Bar Journal;  November 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......the plaintiffs were served with notice of the defendant's death, were in fact aware of the death, and took steps to perfect their claim against the defendant...that the trial court's declaration of the suggestion of death as a nullity was incorrect, but remanded the case to determine...locate a successor ...

Article: Time of Death
World of Forensic Science;      700+ words ......predators are all considered when estimating the time of death. The classical method of estimating time of death is the rate method, which measures postmortem (after death) stages and the types of transformation a body undergoes...the stage of digestion of the last meal at the time of death. The ...

Article: Cardiac arrest, brain death, and organ donation: the inconvenient truth.
Catholic Insight;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......body can be removed only after death, that is, from the body of...who is certainly dead ... the death of a person is a single event consisting in the total disintegration...is the personal self ... The death of a person is an event which no scientific technique...criteria' for ascertaining ...

Article: The development in the understanding of the concept of death among Black South African learners from the Eastern Cape, South Africa.(RESEARCH)
Health SA Gesondheid;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......studies have focused on spontaneous characterisation of death in story completion exercises (Anthony, 1940:12), descriptions of death-related pictures (Schilders & Wechsler, 1934:430), drawings...Nagy, 1948:12). Later studies emphasised components of death, including irreversibility, finality, ...

Article: When life meets death: stories of death and dying, truth and courage.
Presbyterian Record;  April 1, 2000 ;     495 words ......minister) dies, you will shed tears, not only because her death is sad but also because you will have shared with a loving...William Shane's book is a collection of brief stories about death and dying. He is a hospital chaplain and professor who has seen more death than most of us ever will. He ...

Article: The old woman who outwitted death (a story from Hungary).(The ENDLESS TALE: Storytelling: its events, tellers, stories, organizations, resources & points of discussion)(Short story)
Sing Out!;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ......full of wisdom, and never dreamed that death might someday pass her way. She washed...neighbors. She was busy with life. One day, Death remembered the old woman and came knocking...might be ready by the next morning, if Death would be so kind as to return then. Since...

Article: Advice for the grieving; reducing medical errors through partnership.(What to Do When a Loved One Dies: A Practical and Compassionate Guide to Dealing with Death on Life's Terms)(Book review)
AORN Journal;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......in chapters one and two--what to do immediately after a death, how the location of a death can affect what happens, when an autopsy is performed or...sibling, and one may grieve differently if the loved one's death was a result of trauma or suicide as opposed to illness...referrals for readers. Chapters ...