Death is either the cessation of life in a living organism or the state of the organism after that event.

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magazine article: Death. Death is something that everybody has in common. We are all born, we all live and we all die. Read article

word game: Death idioms. Two jigsaw puzzles which practise idioms that contain the word 'dead'. Play dead idioms (1) and dead idioms (2)

story: A Diagnosis of Death In this scary story by Ambrose Bierce, a man explains to his doctor how he came to believe in ghosts. Read story

cartoon: "Autopsy is a dying practice ..." See cartoon

trivia: Person: Henrietta Lacks: an example of immortality. In 1951 she died from cervical cancer. Cells from her tumor were cultured by Dr George Gey to create a cell line for medical research, known as the HeLa cell line, which has been used in a large number of medical experiments, contributing greatly to the understanding of disease processes. See more death trivia

poll: Do you believe in life after death? See poll results

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Wikipedia: death
Wikipedia: death - external links
HowStuffWorks: how autopsies work
BBC: Videonation - death

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