Death (disambiguation)

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Death is the end of life of biological organisms and, by extension, the permanent end of anything.

Death may also refer to:

• Brain death, a legal term defined as a complete and irreversible cessation of brain activity
• Ego death, the perceived loss of boundaries between self and environment
• Near-death experience, personal experiences associated with impending death
• Spiritual death, a spiritual separation from God, usually brought on by sin
• Death (personification), or the Grim Reaper, various depictions of Death as a sentient being:
  • Angel of Death, as a shortened name
  • Death (Discworld), a fictional character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series
  • Death (Castlevania), also referred to as the Grim Reaper, a recurrent villain from Konami's Castlevania video game series
  • Death (DC Comics), a fictional character from the DC comic book series The Sandman
  • Death (Marvel Comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe
  • A character in the television show Family Guy
  • Death, the administrator of the afterlife in the videogame Malice
• Death (Tarot card), a Major Arcana tarot card
• Death (play), a play by Woody Allen
• Comic book death, a neologism used somewhat ironically to refer to the killing off and subsequent return of a long-running comic book character
• Death (cigarette), a brand of cigarettes introduced in the United Kingdom in 1991 by The Enlightened Tobacco Company
• Death (place), the underworld, a place of death where departed spirits go awaiting judgment
  • Death (Old Kingdom), a fictional location in the Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix
• "Death" (Fullmetal Alchemist), episode 50 of Fullmetal Alchemist
• "Death" (South Park episode), the sixth episode of Comedy Central's South Park
• Steve Death, a football goalkeeper

[edit] Music

• Death metal, a sub-genre of heavy metal music
• Death (band), a death metal band from Orlando, Florida that helped form the genre of death metal
• "Angel of Death" (song), a song by thrash metal band Slayer
• "Died" (Alice in Chains song), a famous final song by the Seattle grunge band Alice in Chains

[edit] See also

• The Five Deaths
• The Dead (disambiguation)
• Recent deaths
• Dr. Death