Portal:Death
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- May 11: Grand National winning horse 'Comply or Die' dies, aged 17
- April 22: Musician Prince dies aged 57
- March 27: Football legend Johan Cruyff dies at 68 due to cancer
- March 23: Former Toronto, Canada mayor Rob Ford dies after struggle with cancerous tumors
- March 4: Gunmen murder Honduran indigenous leader Berta Cáceres
- February 20: Italian writer Umberto Eco dies, age 84
- May 10: Landslide in China leaves 41 people missing
- May 4: Six dead following flash flooding in Palestine, Texas
- May 2: 60 people still missing after Kenyan house collapse
- May 2: Militants bomb Gaziantep, Turkey police headquarters
- April 29: Magnitude 7.0 earthquake affects archipelago of Vanuatu
- March 28: Bomb explosion in Lahore kills more than 65 on Easter
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- ...that Emil Calmanovici, the main financial backer of the Romanian Communist Party in the 1940s, was later imprisoned by Communist authorities and died as a result of force-feeding?
- ...that the exuberant "Smiling Faces" figurines from the Remojadas archaeological site (pictured) are likely related to the local cult of the dead?
- ...that somewhere between 25–33% of Icelanders living in Iceland died due to the 1783 eruption of Laki, and the subsequent famine?
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Death is the termination of the biological functions that define a living organism. It refers both to a particular event and to the condition that results thereby. The true nature of the latter has, for millennia, been a central concern of the world's religious traditions and of philosophical enquiry. Belief in some kind of afterlife or rebirth is a central aspect of many religious traditions. Within the scientific community, many suppose death to terminate mind or consciousness. The effect of physical death on any possible mind or soul remains for many an open question. Cognitive science has yet to explain the origin and nature of consciousness; any view about the existence or non-existence of consciousness after death remains speculative. Humans and the vast majority of other animals die in due course from senescence. Remarkable exceptions include the hydra, and the jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii, which is thought to possess in effect biological immortality. Intervening phenomena which commonly bring about death earlier include malnutrition, disease, or accidents resulting in terminal physical injury. Predation is a cause of death for many species. Intentional human activity causing death includes suicide, homicide, and war. Roughly 150,000 people die each day across the globe. Death in the natural world can also occur as an indirect result of human activity: an increasing cause of species depletion in recent times has been destruction of ecosystems as a consequence of the widening spread of industrial technology.
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Box-header/colours' not found. The Black Death was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350. It is widely thought to have been an outbreak of bubonic plague caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, but this view has recently been challenged. Usually thought to have started in Central Asia, it had reached the Crimea by 1346 and from there, probably carried by fleas residing on the black rats that were regular passengers on merchant ships, it spread throughout the Mediterranean and Europe. The Black Death is estimated to have killed 30% to 60% of Europe's population, reducing the world's population from an estimated 450 million to between 350 and 375 million in 1400. This has been seen as creating a series of religious, social and economic upheavals which had profound effects on the course of European history. It took 150 years for Europe's population to recover. The plague returned at various times, resulting in a larger number of deaths, until it left Europe in the 19th century.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Box-header/colours' not found. Sculpture of Johann Baptista Gislenus' (1670) tomb, Church Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome. The inscription reads "neither living here", "nor dead there". |
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