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 is something that everybody has in common. We are all born, we all live and we all die. Read article
word game: 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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HowStuffWorks: how autopsies work
BBC: Videonation - death
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