death
Permanent biological cessation
Death is the end of life—the permanent cessation of biological functions.
It extends to the end of anything: the death of a friendship, the death of an era.
To be the death of someone is to cause them extreme distress or amusement: You'll be the death of me with these jokes.
A death blow or death knell signals the end of something.
To do something to death is to overuse it until it loses meaning.
At death's door means near dying. (Capitalized Death is the personification.)
Total existence duration
- agingGrowing older over time
- senescenceGradual functional decline with age
- finitudeState of being bounded
- transienceBrevity of existence
ephemerality · impermanence · fragility · perishability · life expectancy · fatality · morbidity · dying
Service honoring the dead
- cremationBurning the deceased
- burialPlacing deceased underground
- graveSerious and worrying
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
coffin · casket · tombstone · epitaph · hearse · mortuary · embalming · mausoleum
Intense sorrow from loss
- bereavementState following loss
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- eulogyTribute for the dead
- wakePath left in water
condolences · widow · orphan · heartache · remembrance · memorial · tribute · anguish
Predetermined course of events
- destinyPredetermined course of events
- certaintyTotal absence of doubt
- inescapableImpossible to avoid
- universalAffecting all equally
predetermined · unavoidable · ultimate · inexorable · memento mori · mortality
Postmortem muscular rigidity
- decompositionBreakdown into simpler parts
- putrefactionBacterial breakdown of tissue
- autopsyMedical examination after death
- cadaverBody for dissection
corpse · remains · carrion · decay · necrosis · postmortem · coroner · forensic
Sky or bliss
- hellUnderworld of suffering
- purgatoryPlace of temporary suffering
- reincarnationSoul's rebirth after death
- soulInnermost animating essence
spirit · eternity · paradise · nirvana · limbo · resurrection · judgment · salvation
Disorder impairing normal function
- accidentUnintended harmful event
- murderDeliberate unlawful killing
- suicideVoluntary death by oneself
- starvationExtreme nutritional deprivation
drowning · execution · war · famine · plague · natural causes · overdose · assassination
lifespan
Total existence duration
- agingGrowing older over time
- senescenceGradual functional decline with age
- finitudeState of being bounded
transience · ephemerality · impermanence · fragility · perishability · life expectancy · fatality · morbidity · dying · terminal
funeral
Service honoring the dead
cemetery · coffin · casket · tombstone · epitaph · hearse · mortuary · embalming · mausoleum · pallbearer
grief
Intense sorrow from loss
- bereavementState following loss
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- eulogyTribute for the dead
wake · condolences · widow · orphan · heartache · remembrance · memorial · tribute · anguish · despair
fate
Predetermined course of events
- destinyPredetermined course of events
- certaintyTotal absence of doubt
- inescapableImpossible to avoid
universal · predetermined · unavoidable · ultimate · inexorable · memento mori · mortality
rigor mortis
Postmortem muscular rigidity
- decompositionBreakdown into simpler parts
- putrefactionBacterial breakdown of tissue
- autopsyMedical examination after death
cadaver · corpse · remains · carrion · decay · necrosis · postmortem · coroner · forensic
heaven
Sky or bliss
- hellUnderworld of suffering
- purgatoryPlace of temporary suffering
- reincarnationSoul's rebirth after death
soul · spirit · eternity · paradise · nirvana · limbo · resurrection · judgment · salvation · damnation
disease
Disorder impairing normal function
starvation · drowning · execution · war · famine · plague · natural causes · overdose · assassination · homicide
- Human Experienceslove, birth, joy, sorrow, grief
- topicsnature, health, sports, science, politics
- existenceexistence, being, lives, reality, life
- mortalitydeceased, mortality, mortality rates, dying, demise
- art themesportrait, abstraction, portraits, self-portrait, still life
- Cleopatraasp, barge, throne, crown, kohl
deathbirth
Coming into the world
life · genesis · creation · beginning · origination
deathimmortality
Exemption from death
eternal life · everlasting life · deathlessness · eternity · perpetuity
- dead endPassage without outlet
- scared to deathExtremely frightened
- drop deadExclamation of hostile dismissal
- life and deathMatters of survival
- dead bodyDeceased person's remains
- play deadPretend to be lifeless
deadly, deaths, deadline, deaden, deathly, deadpan, deadlock, deathless, undead