Deaths

Death is the cessation of all Template:Wiki functions that sustain a particular living Template:Wiki.

Phenomena which commonly bring about death include Template:Wiki aging (senescence), predation, malnutrition, Template:Wiki, suicide, murder and accidents or trauma resulting in terminal injury.

Bodies of living Template:Wiki begin to decompose shortly after death.

There is no scientific Template:Wiki that consciousness survives the death of an Template:Wiki

In human Template:Wiki, the nature of death and humanity's awareness of their own Template:Wiki has for millennia been a concern of the world's religious traditions and of philosophical inquiry.

This includes belief in Template:Wiki (associated with Template:Wiki religions), reincarnation or rebirth (associated with Dharmic religions), or that consciousness permanently ceases to exist, known as oblivion.

Commemoration Template:Wiki after death may include various mourning or funeral practices.

The physical remains of a person, commonly known as a corpse or body, are usually interred whole or cremated, though among the world's cultures there are a variety of other methods of mortuary disposal.

In the English language, blessings directed towards a dead person include rest in peace, or its initialism RIP.

The most common cause of human deaths in the world is heart Template:Wiki, followed by stroke and other cerebrovascular Template:Wiki, and in the third place lower respiratory infections. Template:W