Clinical death is the medical term for cessation of blood circulation and breathing, the two criteria necessary to sustain the lives of human beings and...

difficult. Initially, death was defined as occurring when breathing and the heartbeat ceased, a status still known as clinical death. However, the development...

Brain Death Project, published a guideline that: provides recommendations for the minimum clinical standards for determination of brain death/death by neurologic...

A death mask is a likeness (typically in wax or plaster cast) of a person's face after their death, usually made by taking a cast or impression from the...

for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes Clinical death, the cessation of blood circulation and breathing Clinical formulation, a theoretically-based explanation...

A death rattle is noisy breathing that often occurs in someone who is near death. It is caused by an accumulation of fluids such as saliva and bronchial...

stimulus generates an erectile response. There is ample experimental and clinical evidence to support the former supposition." Willis Webster Grube (1897)...

Accidental deaths in the United States An accidental death is an unnatural death that is caused by an accident, such as a slip and fall, traffic collision...

devastation, and seeing hellish imagery. NDEs usually occur during reversible clinical death. Explanations for NDEs vary from scientific to religious. Neuroscience...

Fan death is a misconception that people have died as a result of running an electric fan in a closed room with no open windows. While the supposed mechanics...