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The Death of Death

2004
The current definitions of brain death are predicated on the prognostic observation that brain dead patients would quickly die even with intensive care. But this is now shown to be untrue.1–4 Neuroremediation technologies and advances in intensive care will make it increasingly possible to keep alive the bodies of patients who would currently be ...
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Death imagery and death anxiety

Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1986
This study investigated the relationship between positive/negative death imagery and death anxiety. Subjects were 179 undergraduate students at a large, private, midwestern university. Results reveal that on five measures of death anxiety the subjects with low death anxiety scores had significantly more positive death images than did those with high ...
R T, McDonald, W A, Hilgendorf
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Death Without Weeping

, 2023
When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and ...
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
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Death Anxiety, Death Depression, and Death Obsession

Psychological Reports, 2003
In a sample of 67 students, scores from Templer's and the Collett-Lester death anxiety scales, Templer, et al.'s death depression scale, and Abdel-Khalek's death obsession scale were only moderately associated, suggesting that the scales are measuring somewhat different constructs.
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Is ‘Brain Death’ Actually Death?

Monist, 1993
The paper rejects "brain death" as a new criterion, or definition, of actual death. The main theses are two: 1. Brain death as such--in any of its meanings--is not man's death and this can be proven by means of many cogent and some plausible arguments. 2.
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Death

Theoretical Medicine, 1984
Abstract Roman philosophical authors inherit a set of arguments and claims about death from their Greek predecessors but develop and modify them in important ways. Most obviously, they take on the central disagreement between those who believe that after death the soul remains and those who believe that death is the total annihilation of
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Oxidative cell death in cancer: mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities

Cell Death and Disease
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are highly reactive oxygen-containing molecules generated as natural byproducts during cellular processes, including metabolism.
Xiaoqin An, Wenfeng Yu, Jinbao Liu, Daolin Tang, Li Yang, Xin Chen   +5 more
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Personifications of Death and Death Anxiety

Journal of Personality Assessment, 1982
University students (n = 165), graduate nursing students (n = 102), and funeral service students (n = 68) completed Templer's Death Anxiety Scale (DAS) and a Death Personification Exercise (DPE). Responses to the DAS and DPE were subjected to principal components factor analysis using varimax rotational procedures and the factor scores derived for each
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Cell death: a review of the major forms of apoptosis, necrosis and autophagy

Cell Biology International, 2019
Cell death was once believed to be the result of one of two distinct processes, apoptosis (also known as programmed cell death) or necrosis (uncontrolled cell death); in recent years, however, several other forms of cell death have been discovered ...
M. D'Arcy
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Neocortical Death and Human Death

Law, Medicine and Health Care, 1990
Proposals to make neocortical death, sometimes called cerebral death, a medical and legal indication of human death are becoming more common. Increased sensitivity to the futility and costs of providing life support for patients long after they could be considered dead guarantees that interest in the proposals will continue for some time.
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