About: Death and culture

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This article is about death in the different cultures around the world as well as ethical issues relating to death, such as martyrdom, suicide and euthanasia. Death refers to the permanent termination of life-sustaining processes in an organism, i.e. when all biological systems of a human being cease to operate. Death and its spiritual ramifications are debated in every manner all over the world. Most civilizations dispose of their dead with rituals developed through spiritual traditions.

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  • This article is about death in the different cultures around the world as well as ethical issues relating to death, such as martyrdom, suicide and euthanasia. Death refers to the permanent termination of life-sustaining processes in an organism, i.e. when all biological systems of a human being cease to operate. Death and its spiritual ramifications are debated in every manner all over the world. Most civilizations dispose of their dead with rituals developed through spiritual traditions. (en)
  • 死と文化（しとぶんか、death and culture）では、世界中の様々な文化における死と、その文化、死に関する倫理的問題等について取り上げる。死とは、生命維持プロセスの恒久的な終結、すなわち人間のすべての生物学的システムが機能しなくなった時を指す。死とその精神的な影響は、世界中であらゆる方法で議論されている。ほとんどの文明においては、霊的な伝統を通し、発達した儀式で死者を処分している。 (ja)
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  • This article is about death in the different cultures around the world as well as ethical issues relating to death, such as martyrdom, suicide and euthanasia. Death refers to the permanent termination of life-sustaining processes in an organism, i.e. when all biological systems of a human being cease to operate. Death and its spiritual ramifications are debated in every manner all over the world. Most civilizations dispose of their dead with rituals developed through spiritual traditions. (en)
  • 死と文化（しとぶんか、death and culture）では、世界中の様々な文化における死と、その文化、死に関する倫理的問題等について取り上げる。死とは、生命維持プロセスの恒久的な終結、すなわち人間のすべての生物学的システムが機能しなくなった時を指す。死とその精神的な影響は、世界中であらゆる方法で議論されている。ほとんどの文明においては、霊的な伝統を通し、発達した儀式で死者を処分している。 (ja)
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  • Death and culture (en)
  • 死と文化 (ja)
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