The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory, p. 1-7
DOI: 10.1002/9781118430873.est0084
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Death is a state of the total disappearance of life. Dying is a process of decay of the vital system, which ends with clinical death. In current perspectives there are several approaches to research on death and dying; these are the clinical, the humanistic, the philosophical, the psychological, the anthropological, and the sociological perspective.