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While the resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of the foundational beliefs of Christianity, accounts of other resurrections also figure in religion, myth, and fable. Examples of a resurrected deity are Syrian and Greek worship of Adonis; Egyptian worship of Osiris; the Babylonian story of Tammuz; and rural religious belief in the Corn King.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection
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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrietta_Lacks
Det sjunde inseglet (The Seventh Seal) is a 1957 film directed by Ingmar Bergman, most notable for the scene in which a medieval knight (played by Max von Sydow) plays chess with the personification of Death, with his life resting on the outcome of the game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seventh_Seal
The cause of death in certain area and certain group of ages are different according to area and each group. In 2001 in U.S. the top 10 causes of death were:
Heart Disease: 696,947
Cancer: 557,271
Stroke: 162,672
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 124,816
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 106,742
Diabetes: 73,249
Influenza/Pneumonia: 65,681
Alzheimer's disease: 58,866
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 40,974
Septicemia: 33,865
(There were also 16,110 people murdered)
Statistical data from: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Source: Wikipedia
A mausoleum is a large and impressive tomb, usually constructed for a deceased leader. The word came from the Mausoleum of Maussollos, the tomb of King Mausolus, the Persian satrap of Caria, whose large tomb was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mausoleum
Creeping Death by Metallica
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Death by Vanilla Pudding
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Born dead, dead livestock, dead right, half dead, living dead and preventable death, are all listed as (two words used together which have, or seem to have, opposite meanings)
Source: Oxymoron List
Death penalty is an of Let apathy end and also They plan the date
Source: Anagram Genius
The following two sentences are (an amusing use of a word or phrase which has several meanings or which sounds like another word)
The survival rate after a fall into a deep hole is abyssmal.
Did you know that autopsy is a dying practice?
http://punoftheday.com/
The Book of the Dead is the common name for the ancient Egyptian funerary texts known as The Book of Coming [or Going] Forth By Day. The name was invented by the German Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius, who published a selection of the texts in 1842.
Source: Wikipedia
Famous last words
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, whose assassination set off the First World War: "It is nothing. It is nothing."
Leonardo da Vinci, artist, inventor: "I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have."
Oscar Wilde: "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go"
Joseph Henry Green, British surgeon, after checking his own pulse: "Stopped."
Richard Feynman, Physicist: "I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring."
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