• 2023 Autopsy results on former American swimming champion Jamie Cail reveal her sudden death this year at her residence in the U.S. Virgin Islands was caused by an accidental drug overdose, authorities said. (merriam-webster.com)
  • Bill Hutchinson, ABC News , 30 Aug. 2023 Alongside her bandmates-cellist Lester St. Louis, bassist Jason Ajemian, and drummer Chad Taylor-the jazz trumpeter recorded most of the album in April 2022, at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, Nebraska, before her sudden death that August. (merriam-webster.com)
  • Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork , 25 Aug. 2023 This month marks 50 years since Bruce Lee's sudden death at the age of 32, and likewise the semicentennial anniversary of his highest-profile feature, Enter the Dragon. (merriam-webster.com)
  • Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter , 17 Aug. 2023 After the sudden death of a town's mayor, Pierre (Manenti), an idealistic young doctor, is appointed to replace him. (merriam-webster.com)
  • 2023 The film opens with a technique used to great effect in more prestige-y horror movies like The Quiet Place and Hereditary: the sudden death of a child. (merriam-webster.com)
  • 2023 If the heart rhythm isn't quickly restored, sudden death can occur. (merriam-webster.com)
  • Mayo Foundation For Medical Education and Research, Chicago Tribune , 4 Aug. 2023 The emotional response to the raid was heightened by the sudden death of the editor's 98-year-old mother, who had railed furiously at the officers sorting through her belongings at their home and collapsed a day later. (merriam-webster.com)
  • Every year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracks the number of deaths in the United States and the causes of those deaths. (cbsnews.com)
  • May 12, 2022 · As of 2020, the average age of death row inmates nationally was 52 years old, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. (yahoo.com)
  • Death penalty abolitionists rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. on January 17, 2017. (commondreams.org)
  • We ranked the top 59 causes of death in America, as of 2017, from the CDC's selected causes. (cbsnews.com)
  • Health care providers said complications from childbirth and pregnancy caused 1,208 deaths in 2017. (cbsnews.com)
  • In 2017, 2,812 accidental deaths were due to fires. (cbsnews.com)
  • In 2017, doctors said 3,709 deaths were caused by accidental drowning. (cbsnews.com)
  • Health care providers blamed 4,968 deaths on assaults that did not involve the discharge of firearms in 2017. (cbsnews.com)
  • Doctors blamed viral hepatitis for 5,611 deaths in 2017. (cbsnews.com)
  • Health care providers listed HIV as the cause of death for 5,698 Americans in 2017. (cbsnews.com)
  • This paper is a result of a lecture which was given at the Journey of Culture of Death/Culture of Life Journey, in Florianópolis, sc, in 2017, as a preparatory activity for the XXVI Brazilian Congress of Psychoanalysis. (bvsalud.org)
  • In October 2020, the Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) Subcommittee was moved under the Medicolegal Death Investigation Subcommittee as a formal Task Group (TG). (nist.gov)
  • This, of course, was before the coronavirus pandemic made COVID-19 one of the leading causes of death in 2020. (cbsnews.com)
  • It is more accurate to use "Sudden Unexpected Infant Death" if there is no external evidence of injury to the infant and no scene information to suggest another cause of death. (medscape.com)
  • Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is the sudden, unexplained death of an infant younger than one year old. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Many unexpected infant deaths are attributed to accidental suffocation during sleep. (cbsnews.com)
  • Sudden unexpected infant deaths (SUIDs) are deaths in infants younger than 12 months of age that occur suddenly, unexpectedly, and without obvious cause. (medscape.com)
  • Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), the leading cause of SUID in the United States, is diagnosed only after a thorough investigation of the scene, interview of caregivers, and a complete forensic autopsy. (medscape.com)
  • Depiction of changes in sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) incidence in United States before and after "Back to Sleep" campaign. (medscape.com)
  • Sudden unexpected infant deaths (SUIDs) are specified as deaths in infants younger than 12 months of age that occur suddenly, unexpectedly, and without obvious cause in the ED. These cases require a complete investigation of the environmental circumstances at the time of death and a forensic autopsy. (medscape.com)
  • about half of these deaths are due to SIDS, the leading cause of all infant deaths. (medscape.com)
  • SIDS is defined as the sudden, unexpected death of an infant less than 1 year of age that cannot be explained despite a thorough investigation, including a complete autopsy, examination of the death scene, and review of the clinical and social history. (medscape.com)
  • SIDS is the leading cause of death among infants aged 1-12 months, and is the third leading cause overall of infant mortality in the United States. (medscape.com)
  • [ 3 ] Another category, unclassified sudden infant deaths, was introduced for cases that do not meet the criteria for a diagnosis of SIDS and for which alternative diagnoses of natural or unnatural conditions were equivocal. (medscape.com)
  • We also have another way of looking at unborn or infant deaths. (lu.se)
  • On November 8, 2021 Texas was in the U.S. Supreme Court arguing in defense of not permitting a person about to enter the death chamber to be accompanied by a spiritual advisor who could pray with the prospective corpse and lay hands on him/her. (commondreams.org)
  • The reduced demand for and availability of healthcare in the Ebola-affected regions exacerbated the severity of illness and number of deaths caused by malaria, HIV/AIDS, and TB. (cdc.gov)
  • Thus, disruptions of healthcare services that interrupt treatment may substantially increase the number of deaths associated with malaria, HIV/AIDS, and TB. (cdc.gov)
  • Beyond the actual statistics you hear the dull monotone with which deaths are reported, each one followed by the perfunctory "… body taken to mortuary very sorry may her soul rest in peace next patient 4-year-old female with malaria rule out meningitis. (cmaj.ca)
  • Yaoundé - Ministers of Health from African countries with the highest burden of malaria committed today to accelerated action to end deaths from the disease. (who.int)
  • They pledged to sustainably and equitably address the threat of malaria in the African region, which accounts for 95% of malaria deaths globally. (who.int)
  • Most SIDS deaths occur when babies are between one month and four months old. (medlineplus.gov)
  • March 28, 2012 - An estimated 71% of all cancer deaths in India occur in people 30 to 69 years of age, according to a study published online March 28 in the Lancet . (medscape.com)
  • The fact that so many cancer deaths occur in India before old age is an opportunity, Drs. Sankaranarayanan and Swaminathan suggest. (medscape.com)
  • Fill out CDC's Maritime Conveyance Illness or Death Investigation Form [PDF - 4 pages] . (cdc.gov)
  • Development of Emergency Department guidelines for the reporting and evaluation of SUID, in collaboration with the local medical examiner and child death review teams, will enable ED practitioners to collect important information in a compassionate manner that will be valuable to the investigating personnel. (medscape.com)
  • By far, the strangest postings on the sites are from some of the nearly 3,300 inmates on death row. (thedailybeast.com)
  • The death-row inmates do very well with mail,' he says. (thedailybeast.com)
  • The number of death row inmates fluctuates daily with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). (yahoo.com)
  • Death Row Information Executed Inmates . (yahoo.com)
  • Mar 13, 2019 · The order will prevent the state from putting prisoners to death by granting temporary reprieves to all 737 condemned inmates on California's death row , the largest in the nation. (yahoo.com)
  • On Usenet , the Usenet Death Penalty ( UDP ) is a final penalty that may be issued against Internet service providers or single users who produce too much spam or fail to adhere to Usenet standards. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is named after the death penalty (the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for a crime), as it causes the banned user or provider to be unable to use Usenet, essentially "killing" their service. (wikipedia.org)
  • Messages that fall under the jurisdiction of a Usenet Death Penalty will be cancelled. (wikipedia.org)
  • Under the law, prosecutors could not seek the death penalty unless Thompson had a previous violent crime conviction. (cnn.com)
  • With a previous felony now on his record, prosecutors were able to seek the death penalty against Thompson in the Liuzza case. (cnn.com)
  • It was the carjacking conviction that led to Thompson receiving the death penalty. (cnn.com)
  • by arguing a death penalty case in the United States Supreme Court. (commondreams.org)
  • Texas once again demonstrates that it can show the rest of the country the way and is now doing so at considerable expense to itself, by arguing a death penalty case in the United States Supreme Court. (commondreams.org)
  • The current case is not the first time Texas has taken steps to address death penalty practices that have caught national attention. (commondreams.org)
  • In 2011 it addressed the question of the death penalty prospect's cuisine. (commondreams.org)
  • It has long been a tradition in many states that in order to make the hours immediately preceding the execution of the death penalty more pleasant for its beneficiary, the beneficiary may select the last meal he or she will ever eat. (commondreams.org)
  • Until 2011, the beneficiary of the death penalty in Texas could select whatever he or she wanted for a last meal. (commondreams.org)
  • That, as we now know, was not the end of Texas's encounter with practices associated with the death penalty. (commondreams.org)
  • We then projected the calibrated models to estimate the effect that the Ebola outbreak had on disease-related deaths through reduced access to treatment for varying reductions in treatment coverage. (cdc.gov)
  • Your assistance in this effort will help prevent silicosis-related death and disease, a national goal for health promotion and disease prevention stated in Healthy People 2000 [PHS 1990]. (cdc.gov)
  • Shira Shafir] While coccidioidomycosis has the potential to be severe and fatal, we believe that the number of deaths in the US associated with this disease are limited. (cdc.gov)
  • Over an 18-year period, about 3,100 deaths related to this disease occurred. (cdc.gov)
  • In some populations, we suspect that possibility of death increases because poor access to health care services might delay diagnosis, resulting in more severe disease. (cdc.gov)
  • There was doubt and bewilderment about what had actually happened in Dallas on November 22, 1963, and the uncertainty was compounded two days later when Lee Harvey Oswald was shot to death while in the custody of the Dallas police. (wiktionary.org)
  • Civil registration (stato civile) of births, marriages, and deaths within the custody of the town of Gricignano d'Aversa (Comune di Gricignano d'Aversa). (cyndislist.com)
  • Civil registration (stato civile) of indexes to births, marriages, and deaths within the custody of the town of Sant'Arpino (Comune di Sant'Arpino). (cyndislist.com)
  • Civil registration (stato civile) of births, marriages, and deaths within the custody of the Caltagirone Courthouse (Tribunale di Caltagirone). (cyndislist.com)
  • Civil registration (stato civile) of births, marriages, and deaths within the custody of the State Archive of Catanzaro (Archivio di Stato di Catanzaro). (cyndislist.com)
  • What's the Difference Between a Criminal Homicide Case and a Wrongful Death Claim? (nolo.com)
  • This is one major difference between a wrongful death lawsuit and a criminal homicide case, where a conviction can result in jail or prison time, fines paid to the state, probation, and other penalties. (nolo.com)
  • Some people call SIDS "crib death" because many babies who die of SIDS are found in their cribs. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Preparing for death often means finishing a life's work, setting things right with family and friends, and making peace with the inevitable. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Other definitions for death focus on the character of cessation of organismic functioning and human death, which refers to irreversible loss of personhood. (wikipedia.org)
  • To wit: A shark attack is a direct mechanism of death - a thing that produces actual, physical harm. (snopes.com)
  • The direct mechanism was hitting her head, just as in most "selfie deaths," the direct mechanism is being struck by a car, falling down, what have you. (snopes.com)
  • These are not random events, but part of a finely tuned biological mechanism called programmed cell death. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • But unfortunately, programmed cell death is not a foolproof mechanism. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Highly contagious and usually fatal, the Black Death swept through much of the continent in waves, killing up to a third of the population and dramatically changing the way the survivors lived their lives and thought about the world. (gale.com)
  • There is no official source keeping track of selfie-caused deaths, but a list compiled by Wikipedia of "Selfie-related injuries and deaths" also stated that 12 people had died between January 2015 and October 2015 while taking selfies. (snopes.com)
  • A philosopher refutes our culturally embedded acceptance of death, arguing instead for the desirability of anti-aging science and radical life extension. (mit.edu)
  • The acceptance of death is deeply embedded in our culture. (mit.edu)
  • Death is the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain an organism. (wikipedia.org)
  • For organisms with a brain, death can also be defined as the irreversible cessation of functioning of the whole brain, including the brainstem, and brain death is sometimes used as a legal definition of death. (wikipedia.org)
  • Determining when death has occurred is difficult, as cessation of life functions is often not simultaneous across organ systems. (wikipedia.org)
  • More specifically, death occurs when a living entity experiences irreversible cessation of all functioning. (wikipedia.org)
  • Death was defined as the cessation of heartbeat (cardiac arrest) and breathing, but the development of CPR and prompt defibrillation have rendered that definition inadequate because breathing and heartbeat can sometimes be restarted. (wikipedia.org)
  • Death is the cessation of all vital functions of the body including the heartbeat, brain activity, and breathing. (cdc.gov)
  • This technique is an evolutionarily invaluable contribution to innate immunity, combining the killing of pathogen-infected cells with alerting the immune system through the release of DAMPs," noted the authors of a recent review about programmed cell death. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • While the article cited a shark attack survivor forum as evidence for the eight shark attack deaths in 2015, it didn't cite a source for the twelve selfie deaths. (snopes.com)
  • Some argue that the scientific principle of the conservation of energy supports the idea that the mind survives bodily death. (philosophynow.org)
  • On Monday, nine of Prince's South Hadley High classmates -- seven girls and two boys -- faced a variety of felony and juvenile court charges regarding events leading up to her death, including "statutory rape, violation of civil rights with bodily injury, harassment, stalking and disturbing a school assembly. (salon.com)
  • Among men 30 to 69 years of age, about half of all of cancer deaths were from oral and pharyngeal (23%), stomach (13%), and lung (11%) cancers. (medscape.com)
  • Among women in the same age group, about half of all cancer deaths were from cervix (17%), stomach (14%), breast (10%), and oral and pharyngeal (10%) cancers. (medscape.com)
  • For cancer deaths, assigning causes of death to internal cancers such as stomach, liver, bowel, and kidney can be more challenging than for sites such as head and neck, breast, and cervix," they point out. (medscape.com)
  • Interventions such as tobacco control, vaccination against human papillomavirus and hepatitis B, cervical cancer screening and early detection, and treatment of oral and breast cancers would have a "substantial effect" on cancer death prevention, they add. (medscape.com)
  • However, this will change because cancer death rates are expected to rise, "particularly with increases in age-specific exposure to tobacco smoking," they note. (medscape.com)
  • The study allows for a better estimation of the causes of death, including cancer, because it is not limited by locale or education level, Drs. Sankaranarayanan and Swaminathan note. (medscape.com)
  • The authors found that 7137 of the 122,429 study deaths were due to cancer, which corresponds to a projected estimate of 556,400 cancer deaths across the whole of India for 2010. (medscape.com)
  • Cancer deaths accounted for 6% of deaths across all ages. (medscape.com)
  • Cancer , autoimmune conditions, and neurodegeneration are all linked to failures of normal cell death and cell clearance. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • There are also popular notions that someone can be " scared to death" or die of loneliness or heartbreak . (wikipedia.org)
  • A few days earlier, in an interview with the English newspaper The Guardian, Simpson complained of the loneliness of his nine-year incarceration on death row, spent mostly in isolation. (thedailybeast.com)
  • For example, although there are no reasonable grounds to doubt that people sometimes have outof- body experiences and near-death experiences, these experiences are plausibly explained in physiological and psychological terms. (philosophynow.org)
  • Whether under physiological or pathological conditions, cell death is an unavoidable and important link in the process of life and marks the end of the life of a cell. (nature.com)
  • As a point in time, death seems to refer to the moment when life ends. (wikipedia.org)
  • At the time of his death, Time magazine remembered Malcolm X unsympathetically as "a pimp, a cocaine addict and a thief" and "an unashamed demagogue. (cnn.com)
  • Now, though, it was six-thirty-high time for them both to be back, whatever the trouble- and a roast cooking to death in the oven. (wiktionary.org)
  • Important Events During the Time of the Black Death. (gale.com)
  • Important People During the Time of the Black Death. (gale.com)
  • Perhaps the time it would take to do a death review would mean that another patient would die for lack of adequate care. (cmaj.ca)
  • Bargaining can be a sign of reasoning with death-that is, seeking more time. (msdmanuals.com)
  • For a long time it was inconceivable to think that parents could beat their own children to death. (lu.se)
  • The inquest concluded Cooper-Clarke's gastric bypass surgery was carried out properly, and that her behavior after the procedure is what led to her death. (go.com)
  • In the December 1995 review of the proposal for a trial in humans, RAC members discussed the potential for lethal liver inflammation based on toxicity results in Rhesus monkeys and one animal's death after an extremely high dose of a first-generation vector. (nature.com)
  • They are also the gatekeepers of inflammation , and cell death can either be pro- or anti-inflammatory, leading to different outcomes. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • So it is true that more people have died in 2015 from selfie-related deaths than from shark attacks, but in a strictly pedantic sense, nobody this year has actually been killed by a selfie. (snopes.com)
  • About 71% (395,000) of these deaths occurred in people 30 to 69 years of age (200,100 men and 195,300 women), the authors report. (medscape.com)
  • Disguised as Prince Nikolai Sirki, Death sets out to try to understand why people are so afraid of him - and falls in love in the process. (timeout.com)
  • People over the age of 65 may be at increased risk for death because their immune systems do not function as well and also because they are more likely to have other medical conditions. (cdc.gov)
  • The author presents an introduction to the main relations between romanticism and the concepts of nostalgia and death. (bvsalud.org)
  • The data collection is contributing to a larger ongoing general mortality study, known as the Million Death Study. (medscape.com)
  • The CDC provides data for selected causes of death , though it does not break out details on rarer diseases and accidents. (cbsnews.com)
  • US Fetal death data are limited to deaths occurring within the United States to U.S. residents and nonresidents. (cdc.gov)
  • Fetal deaths occurring to U.S. citizens outside the United States are not included in this data file. (cdc.gov)
  • Fetal death data for Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and Guam are limited to deaths occurring within the respective territories. (cdc.gov)
  • Death Stranding delivers a fascinating world of supernatural sci-fi, but its gameplay struggles to support its weight. (ign.com)
  • The latest entry in Robb's series of feisty futuristic mysteries (after Portrait in Death) delivers. (publishersweekly.com)
  • The man's death raises the selfie-related death toll this year - to 12. (snopes.com)
  • A 17-year-old girl plunged 30 feet to her death as she climbed onto a railway bridge - to take a selfie. (snopes.com)
  • According to MSN , the Saudi state news agency SUNA announced in a release that 27-year-old Meriam Ibrahim, who was to have been hanged within the next two years, will not be put to death after all. (webpronews.com)
  • The inquest into the December 2011 death of Dianne Bernadette Cooper-Clarke concluded the 64-year-old mother suffocated because of a backlog of food outside her stomach, which had been surgically shrunken to the size of a thumb, according to the Daily Mail . (go.com)
  • A death that puts the individual at the centre and imposes new demands on three professional groups who encounter death: doctors, undertakers and priests. (lu.se)
  • As an indirect or non-determinative factor, biological aging is the biggest contributor to deaths worldwide. (wikipedia.org)
  • If prosecutors were so sure Thompson was the carjacker, they would have tested his blood and presented the test results as evidence, Abolafia told CNN's "Death Row Stories. (cnn.com)
  • Wyoming law defines a "wrongful death" as a death that results from another party's "wrongful act, neglect or default," under circumstances where the deceased could have filed a personal injury claim had he or she survived. (nolo.com)
  • After setting out his case against death, Linden systematically examines each of the accepted arguments for death-that aging and death are natural, that death is harmless, that life is overrated, that living longer would be boring, and that death saves us from overpopulation. (mit.edu)
  • Though Linden acknowledges that The Case Against Death is a negative polemic, he also defends it as optimistic, in that the badness of death is a function of the goodness of life. (mit.edu)
  • As with personal injury cases in general, the defendant's liability in a successful wrongful death case is expressed exclusively in terms of financial compensation ("damages") that the court orders the defendant to pay to the deceased person's survivors. (nolo.com)
  • For investigators and commentators alike, then, his death was an open and shut case: Muslims did it. (cnn.com)
  • From embalming to cremation, funeral services to burial ceremonies, the rituals of death tell us a lot about the living. (publicradio.org)
  • The tone accurately reflects the apparent lack of concern or emotion that surrounds patient deaths. (cmaj.ca)
  • In fact, Wyoming's law specifies that a wrongful death claim can proceed even if the death was the result of murder or manslaughter. (nolo.com)
  • Among those inside Afghanistan's biggest prison are Timur Shah, a gang leader on death row for murder who kidnapped an Italian aid worker in 2005, and Jack Idema, a US ex-special forces soldier jailed for torturing Afghans. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Such determination, therefore, requires drawing precise conceptual boundaries between life and death. (wikipedia.org)
  • The deaths of several healthcare workers early in 2014, as well as the strain on healthcare facilities caused by increased numbers of patients and decreased staff, resulted in the closure of many clinics and the interruption of routine health delivery services, including HIV testing, childhood vaccinations, and maternity care. (cdc.gov)
  • Cell death: Is our health at risk? (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • But cell death can have side effects, and if it malfunctions, our health is at stake. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) requests assistance in preventing silicosis and deaths in construction workers exposed to respirable crystalline silica. (cdc.gov)
  • On the other hand, deaths that put emphasis on the deceased and embraces the individual through personalised funerals with music, colours, flowers, decorated graves and relatives, and place higher demands than ever on health care, the undertaker and the priest. (lu.se)
  • As with other types of personal injury cases, many kinds of events can be the basis of a wrongful death lawsuit, including negligence -based incidents (such as car accidents ), medical malpractice , or intentional acts (including crimes). (nolo.com)
  • 4,208 deaths were due to cervical and uterine cancers. (cbsnews.com)
  • Initially, death was defined as occurring when breathing and the heartbeat ceased, a status still known as clinical death. (wikipedia.org)
  • Most states' laws allow the deceased person's surviving family or the personal representative of the deceased person's estate to file a wrongful death claim. (nolo.com)
  • Under Wyoming law, only a "wrongful death representative" may file a wrongful death claim. (nolo.com)
  • The Million Death Study is one of the few large nationally representative studies of the causes of death in any low- or middle-income country, say the study authors. (medscape.com)
  • For a comprehensive list of potential causes, see List of causes of death by rate . (wikipedia.org)
  • The belief in life after death comes in all shapes and sizes. (philosophynow.org)
  • These conceptions of life after death have in common the fact that the individual person survives in some sense. (philosophynow.org)
  • Some of the most convincing evidence for life after death comes from the many stories and reports of paranormal phenomena. (philosophynow.org)
  • In short, there is no good empirical evidence for life after death. (philosophynow.org)