Maternal death in fiction is a common theme encountered in literature, movies, and other media. The death of a mother during pregnancy, childbirth or immediately...

Maternal death or maternal mortality is defined in slightly different ways by several different health organizations. The World Health Organization (WHO)...

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...

Mortality salience is the awareness that one's death is inevitable. The term derives from terror management theory, which proposes the so-called mortality...

In epidemiology, the excess deaths or excess mortality is a measure of the increase in the number deaths during a time period and/or in a certain group...

Child mortality is the mortality of children under the age of five. The child mortality rate (also under-five mortality rate) refers to the probability...

body of the person entombed. Coffins also serve as blunt reminders of mortality. Europeans were also seen to use coffins and cemeteries to symbolize the...

consistently show this effect; some studies find that men's and women's mortality rates diverge in the run-up to the birthday, while others find no significant gender...

Look up rigor mortis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rigor mortis (Latin: rigor "stiffness", and mortis "of death"), or postmortem rigidity, is the...

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