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Encouraging death communication in a death-avoidant society: analysis of interviews with death café organizers
BackgroundPost-war Japanese tend to avoid discussion of death, resulting in a lack of death communication within clinical settings. However, with the...
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New developments in guidelines for brain death/death by neurological criteria
The declaration of brain death (BD), or death by neurological criteria (DNC), is medically and legally accepted throughout much of the world....
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Death doula working practices and models of care: the views of death doula training organisations
BackgroundThe role of death doula has emerged in recent years, arguably as a result of overwhelming demands on carers, healthcare professionals and...
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The mediating effects of attitude toward death and meaning of life on the relationship between perception of death and co** with death competence among Chinese nurses: a cross-sectional study
BackgroundIt is important to understand how the perception of death affects the competence to cope with death.
ObjectivesTo explore whether the...
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Child maltreatment among victims of violent death: an analysis of national violent death reporting system data, 2014–2018
BackgroundLimited information is known about the impact of childhood maltreatment on lifetime risk of violent death. This study aimed to compare...
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When is a person dead? The Canadian public’s understanding of death and death determination: a nationwide survey
PurposeWe aimed to describe the Canadian public’s understanding and perception of how death is determined in Canada, their level of interest in...
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Clinical exome sequencing elucidates underlying cause of death in sudden unexpected death of infants: two case reports
Sudden unexpected death in infants (SUDI) is a traumatic event for families, and unfortunately its occurrence remains high in many parts of the...
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Brain death: a review
BackgroundTo date, the recognized medical criteria for BD/DNC (brain death/death according to neurological criteria) in the USA (United States of...
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Sudden gamer death: non-violent death cases linked to playing video games
Background and aimsInternet gaming disorder (IGD) is an emerging problem. Rarely, media reports about people, who have died during playing video...
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Negligible role of TRAIL death receptors in cell death upon endoplasmic reticulum stress in B-cell malignancies
Impairments in protein folding in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) lead to a condition called ER stress, which can trigger apoptosis via the...
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Collider and reporting biases involved in the analyses of cause of death associations in death certificates: an illustration with cancer and suicide
BackgroundMortality data obtained from death certificates have been studied to explore causal associations between diseases. However, these analyses...
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Estimation of time since death using cardiac troponin I in case of death due to asphyxia and cardiotoxicity of acebutolol
The objective of this study was to investigate the degradation pattern of cardiac troponin I in rats in vivo, and to determine whether the pattern...
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Combining multiple cell death pathway-related risk scores to develop neuroblastoma cell death signature
PurposeCell death plays an important role in tumourigenesis and progression; nevertheless, the clinical significance of cell death-related genes in...
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Premature Death as a Normative Concept
The practical goal of preventing premature death seems uncontroversial. But the term ‘premature death’ is vague with several, sometimes conflicting...
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Correlation of gestational age and age at death in sudden infant death syndrome: another pointer to the role of critical developmental period?
BackgroundFiliano and Kinney proposed a triple-risk model for the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) that involves the intersection of three risks:...
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Legal considerations for the definition of death in the 2023 Canadian Brain-Based Definition of Death Clinical Practice Guideline
PurposeThe new 2023 Canadian Brain-Based Definition of Death Clinical Practice Guideline provides a new definition of death as well as clear...
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Association of filial attitude, filial behavior and death literacy: implications for development of death system in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area of China
BackgroundFilial piety, as a major traditional norm in Chinese culture and in Chinese families, affects the attitudes and behaviors of adult children...
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Abortion, Brain Death, and Coercion
A “universalist” policy on brain death holds that brain death is death, and neurologic criteria for death determination are rightly applied to all,...
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Shocked to death: a case report of cardiogenic shock and death following electrocardioversion for atrial fibrillation
BackgroundAtrial fibrillation (AF) is prevalent, especially in patients with heart failure. Their prevalence increases with age and both conditions...
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Philemon and Baucis death: a literature review
Double death, i.e., two bodies at a scene, is relatively rare. The double death from natural causes of two close persons is called Philemon and...