Death is the
end of all biological functions that maintain a particular living organism.
Phenomena which usually bring about death take in biological aging
(senescence), predation, malnutrition, disease, suicide, murder and accidents
or trauma resulting in terminal injury.
Bodies of living creatures begin to
decay soon after death. There is no technical proof as to whether or not
consciousness survives the demise of an organism.
In human
cultures, the nature of death and humanity's consciousness of its own mortality
has for millennia been a concern of the world's religious traditions and of
philosophical inquiry. This comprises belief in resurrection (associated with
Abrahamic religions), reincarnation or rebirth (associated with Dharmic
religions), or that consciousness eternally ceases to exist, known as oblivion.
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