Legal death
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Legal death is a legal pronouncement by a qualified person that further medical care is not appropriate, and that a patient should be considered dead under the law. The specific criteria used to pronounce legal death are variable and depend on circumstances.
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| Death and related topics | |
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| In medicine | Autopsy · Brain death · Clinical death · Euthanasia · Legal death · Persistent vegetative state · Terminal illness |
| Lists | Causes of death by rate · People by cause of death |
| Mortality | Immortality · Infant mortality · Maternal death · Mortality rate |
| After death | Afterlife · Burial · Cremation · Funeral · Grief · Mourning |
| Other | Fascination with death · Martyrdom · Sacrifices (Human · Animal) · Suicide · War |
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