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appropriate death  

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  • Death is considered an appropriate occurrence of human experience when it is not out of place according to personal and cultural norms. Whether regarding our own death or the death of others, we always refer to a complex aggregate of many ingredients or criteria of appropriateness when we label a death. [Source: Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience; Appropriate Death]

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