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Depiction of Charon crossing the river Styx with the deceased after they paid the cost of the crossing. Die Gartenlaube (1886)

Coins for the dead is a form of respect for the dead or bereavement. The practice began in classical antiquity when people believed the dead needed coins to pay a ferryman to cross the river Styx. In modern times the practice has been observed in the United States and Canada: visitors leave coins on the gravestones of former military personnel.[1]

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Death

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lost, so therefore, the person should be considered entirely dead. Brain death is sometimes used as a legal definition of death. For all organisms with...

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Presumption of death

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support the belief that the person is dead (e.g., an airplane crash). The presumption becomes certainty if the person has not been located for a period...

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through, Duat, for the spirits of the dead Ereshkigal (Sumerian mythology, Akkadian mythology, Babylonian mythology), first lady of the Underworld Namtar...

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Lazarus sign

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The Lazarus sign or Lazarus reflex is a reflex movement in brain-dead or brainstem failure patients, which causes them to briefly raise their arms and...

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Taboo on the dead

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The taboo on the dead includes the taboo against touching of the dead, those surrounding them and anything associated with the dead. A taboo against naming...

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Pallor mortis

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Brain death

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brain death as including the brainstem. The distinctions are medically significant because, for example, in someone with a dead cerebrum but a living brainstem...

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Rigor mortis

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prevents cold shortening. The degree of rigor mortis may be used in forensic pathology to determine the approximate time of death. A dead body holds its position...

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Cadaver

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newspapers) to refer to a dead body, as well as by recovery teams searching for bodies in natural disasters. The word comes from the Latin word cadere ("to...

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Cremation

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and the dead were dressed in costume and with ornaments for the burning. That custom was also very widespread among the Germanic peoples of the northern...

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Legal death

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punishment for a crime. Sometimes people who are declared dead return and are unable to be declared alive. One study estimated that every year, the U.S. Social...

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Clinical death

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of the clinically dead state by restoration of blood circulation and breathing. However, there is great variation in the effectiveness of CPR for this...

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Undead

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using the title, The Un-Dead, for his novel Dracula (1897), and use of the term in the novel is mostly responsible for the modern sense of the word. The word...

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Disposal of human corpses

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accompany the final disposition. Regardless, the manner of disposal is often dominated by spirituality with a desire to hold vigil for the dead and may...

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Necrophilia

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pecked at the corpse of the dead one for a few minutes then mounted the corpse and began copulating with it. The act of necrophilia lasted for about 75...

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Charon

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practices, or else the coins function as a viaticum for the soul's journey. In Virgil's epic poem, Aeneid, the dead who could not pay the fee, and those who...

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Death threat

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Retrieved 2012-04-29.[permanent dead link] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Death threats. Judiciary Criminal Charges The Forensic Linguistics Institute...

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Visitation stones

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It happens that the Hebrew word for pebble is "tz'ror" but the word also means "bond" in Hebrew. Chinese burial money Coins for the dead List of ways people...

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Apparent death

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Apparent death is a behavior in which animals take on the appearance of being dead. It is an immobile state most often triggered by a predatory attack...

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Coins of the Indian rupee

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Coins of the Indian rupee (₹) were first minted in 1950. New coins have been produced annually since then and they make up a valuable aspect of the Indian...

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Memento mori

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is recounted, introduces the idea that the proper practice of philosophy is "about nothing else but dying and being dead". The Stoics of classical antiquity...

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Death hoax

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Frank Sinatra, among other celebrities of the time. Possibly the most famous hoax of this type was the "Paul is dead" rumor, which claimed that Paul McCartney...

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Death mask

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impression from the corpse. Death masks may be mementos of the dead or be used for creation of portraits. The main purpose of the death mask from the Middle Ages...

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Death certificate

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validate the cause of death and the identity of the deceased. In cases where it is not completely clear that a person is dead (usually because their body...

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Funeral director

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the deceased) involved in the business of funeral rites. These tasks often entail the embalming and burial or cremation of the dead, as well as the arrangements...

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Necropolitics

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that confer upon them the status of the living dead." Mbembe, author of On the Postcolony, was the first scholar to explore the term in depth in his 2003...

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