There are many scientific approaches and various interpretations of the concept. The concept of death is a key to human understanding of the phenomenon. Many cultures and religions have the idea of an afterlife, and also may hold the idea of judgement of good and bad deeds in one's life ( Heaven, Hell, Karma).įrench – 16th-/17th-century ivory pendant, Monk and Death, recalling mortality and the certainty of death ( Walters Art Museum) Other concerns include fear of death or anxiety from the thought of death, necrophobia, feelings of sorrow, grief, depression, solitude or saudade for the deceased and/or feelings of sympathy or compassion for the deceased or the loved ones of the deceased. Something that is not considered a living organism, such as a virus, can be physically destroyed but is not said to die.Īs of the early 21st century, over 150,000 humans die each day, with aging being by far the most common cause of death.ĭeath, particularly of humans, has commonly been considered a sad or unpleasant occasion, due to the affection for the deceased and the termination of social and familial bonds. Death is an inevitable, universal process that eventually occurs in all living organisms.ĭeath is generally applied to whole organisms the similar process seen in individual components of a living organism, such as cells or tissues, is necrosis. The remains of a previously living organism normally begin to decompose shortly after death. Brain death is sometimes used as a legal definition of death. Death tending to his flowers, in Kuoleman Puutarha, Hugo Simberg (1906)ĭeath is the permanent, irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain an organism.
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