Death

"If you want respect in death, earn that shit while you're alive."

As the only thing every human really has in common, the prospect of death has massively influenced every inch of our societies over the years. See: Philosophy, Art, Spirituality, Folklore & Mythology.

Links

Curlie: Death
Curlie: Death and Funeral Customs
Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
Autopsy Files - autopsy reports of famous dead celebrities and other imfamous persons

Stages of Post-Death

The stages that follow after death are:

pallor mortis: paleness which happens in the 15–120 minutes after death
algor mortis: the reduction in body temperature following death (generally a steady decline until matching ambient temperature)
rigor mortis: the limbs of the corpse become stiff and difficult to move or manipulate
livor mortis: a settling of the blood in the lower (dependent) portion of the body
putrefaction: the beginning signs of decomposition
decomposition: the reduction into simpler forms of matter, accompanied by a strong, unpleasant odor
skeletonization: where all soft tissues have decomposed, leaving only the skeleton
fossilization: the natural preservation of the skeletal remains formed over a very long period

Lexicon

bier: stand on which a corpse/coffin/casket is placed to lie in state/be carried to the grave
byssus: fabric used by ancient Egyptians to wrap the dead
chthonic: of/pertaining to the underworld, within/under the earth
elegiac: of/relating to/involving elegy/mourning/expressing sorrow for that which is irrecoverably past
necropolis: city of the dead
psychopomp: one who guides the souls of the dead to the afterlife
sepulchre: a burial chamber
Yahrzeit: Judaic anniversary of a relative's death, observed with mourning and recitation of religious texts

Art

Ludens

!Death Stranding by Kojima Productions (PS4&5/Steam)
What Remains of Edith Finch by Giant Sparrow (Steam)
Don't Look Back by Terry Canavagh (Flash)

Audio

Albums

HEY WHAT by Low (Bandcamp)
Weighing Souls With Sand by The Angelic Process (Bandcamp/Bandcamp (alt))
The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance (Youtube)
I Didn't Mean to Haunt You by Quadeca (Youtube/Youtube (album movie))

Songs

Seikilos epitaph by some ancient Hellenistic mf (Wikipedia)
Kintsugi by Lana Del Rey (Youtube)
Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns (Youtube)
5 Star Crest (4 Vattenrum) by bladee & ecco2k (Youtube)
You Are Dead by Joe Sparks (Youtube)

Visual

Graphics

!Isle of the Dead (Die Toteninsel) by Arnold Böcklin (Wikimedia (1)/Wikimedia (2)/Wikimedia (3)/Wikimedia (5))
Death and Life by Gustav Klimt (Wikimedia)
The Garden of Death by Hugo Simberg (Wikimedia/Wikimedia (alt))

Films

Stay (2005) directed by Marc Forster
Cat Soup (2001) directed by Tatsuo Satō

Writings

The Islander by Cynthia Rylant

Death Clock

Below is a Python 3 program I wrote, that takes one's date of birth and adds the average human life expectancy to it, outputting some handy stats about your life and (estimated) death.

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from datetime import datetime, timedelta      #  for working with dates

                                              ### GENERATE STATS
                                              #
led = timedelta(days=26298)                   #  life expectancy (days)
dob = datetime(2005, 5, 8)                    #           date of birth
ycm = datetime.now()                          #     your current moment
edd = dob + led                               # estimated date of death
ndl = ycm - dob                               #              days lived
edl = edd - ycm                               #     estimated days left
pro = round(ndl / led * 100)                  # estimated life progress

                                              ### PRINT RESULTS
                                              #
print("\nbirth: " + dob.strftime("%Y"))       #           date of birth
print("est. death: " + edd.strftime("%Y"))    # estimated date of death
print("\ndays lived: " + str(ndl.days))       #              days lived
print("est. days left: " + str(edl.days))     #     estimated days left
print("est. progress: " + str(pro) + "%")     # estimated life progress

Other death clocks include this one, this one and this one.

May the skeletons jam out.