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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
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
- Death is a song by British indie rock act White Lies
See also
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