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Every fourth morning in Melbourne a mother goes to pick up her baby from its cot only to find that her baby is dead. This statement, which ignores the seasonal incidence of cot death, does indicate however both the frequency and the tragic drama of cot death.The first recorded case of probable cot death in Australia was recorded in 1810. I say probable as we have no means of knowing whether it would really fit the currently accepted definition of cot death which is "the sudden and unexpected death of an infant in whom a thorough post mortem examination does not disclose an adequate cause of death". Some infants do die suddenly and unexpectedly from diseases such as myocarditis, meningitis, and gastro-enteritis. But these conditions are readily recognised by the pathologist who examines the baby after death. It is when he is unable to find evidence of any such lethal disease after a thorough examination that he records his verdict as cot death, or as it is usually labelled these days, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or SIDS.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- 1 Mediating Death -- 2 A Brief History of an Idea -- 3 The Event of Death -- 4 Rethinking Mourning Rituals -- 5 Ritual Contestations -- 6 Rituals Connect and Separate -- 7 The Quest for Post-Mortality -- Bibliography -- Index.

Between 8 December 1987 and 31 October 1988 at least 287 Palestinians died as a direct result of the intifadah. A statistical analysis of those deaths and of the characteristics of the victims shows that death patterns have not been uniform across time but have varied considerably from month to month as the uprising - and Israeli government policy - have passed through different phases. Four key patterns are discussed: the frequency and magnitude of death; the spread of the uprising; the age of the victims; and the day of death. (DÜI-Hns)

"Death in Vienna" is intended as an introduction to this themed issue on The Dark Spectacle: Landscapes of Devastation in Film and Photography. Drawing on Susan Sontag's Regarding the Pain of Others, the articles gathered here address the representation of unsettling subject matter (war, ecological catastrophe, destructive urbanization) in a variety of visual media. The collection's specific focus is on the important role played by space in the depiction of disturbing events. Do images portraying death and destruction generate documents, or do they create works of art? Does their beauty drain "attention from the sobering subject?" "Death in Vienna" addresses these and other related questions with reference to Yevgeny Khaldei's photography, specifically a shocking image he took in Vienna during the final days of the World War II. Together with Sontag, this article also questions our "right to look" at images of extreme suffering.

A short overview of an informal survey conducted May 25–June 22, 2018, about fan reaction to character deaths in Avengers: Infinity War (2018).

This chapter explores knowledge practices around the subject of capital punishment. Capital sentencing jurisprudence and certain strands of academic scholarship on the death penalty have certain resonances with recent developments in reflexive cultural anthropology. Using the notion of productive unraveling, this chapter seeks to reinforce relations between these various knowledge practices by conceiving of them as situated on the same ground, already interwoven with one another. This chapter presents itself as both an example of and a call for the development of interconnections between these various kinds of expert knowledges concerning the death penalty. [Copyright 2007 Elsevier Ltd.]

IN CALIFORNIA, AND ACROSS THE UNITED STATES, CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IS CARRIED OUT AS BUSINESS AS USUAL IN 1996. BUT THE EXECUTION OF A CONVICT NAMED KEITH WILLIAMS WAS A LITTLE DIFFERENT. FOR ONE THING, THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA NOW INJECTS POISONOUS CHEMICALS INTO THE PRISONER'S BODY. FOR ANOTHER, REPORTERS WERE ABLE TO COVER THE STORY FROM THE STRAPPING DOWN OF A STILL-CONSCIOUS PRISONER UNTIL PRONOUNCEMENT OF DEATH. ACCORDING TO THE CIVIL LIBERTIES LAWYERS WHO WENT TO COURT TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, BOTH OF THESE CHANGES REPRESENT PROGRESS, IN THE FORM OF A MORE HUMANE, AND A MORE FULLY REPORTED ON, DEATH. THE AUTHOR OFFERS A DISAGREEMENT.

In 1993, teenagers Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, Jr. - who have come to be known as the West Memphis Three - were arrested for the murders of three eight-year-old boys in Arkansas. The ensuing trial was marked by tampered evidence, false testimony, and public hysteria. Baldwin and Misskelley were sentenced to life in prison, while eighteen-year-old Echols, deemed the 'ringleader,' was sentenced to death. Over the next two decades, the three men became known worldwide as a symbol of wrongful conviction and imprisonment, with thousands of supporters and many notable celebr

This Comment analyzes the federal death penalty. Part one discusses the history of the federal death penalty, from its roots in the superstitions and religious dogma of colonial America to the Drug Kingpin Act and the Federal Death Penalty Act of 1994. Part two examines the Drug Kingpin Act, the first federal move into the death penalty arena since the landmark Supreme Court case of Furman v. Georgia. Next, the Comment explores Congress' broad expansion of the federal death penalty in its most recent statute, the Federal Death Penalty Act of 1994. Part four examines the practical application of the Drug Kingpin Act in the case of Juan Raul Garza, the man who likely will be the first federal execution of the twenty-first century. Part four also contemplates the constitutionality of the federal death penalty, focusing on the recent Supreme Court case of Jones v. United States, the first treatment of the new death penalty law by this nation's highest court. Finally, part five considers the implications, pragmatic and political, of renewed federal executions.

"Welcome to the disaster zone where awful accidents kill people around the world. Follow along to see how a famous stuntman met his end at the hands (peel) of an orange, a harsh Greek lawmaker was killed by cloaks, and a groundbreaking balloonist died in a freak hot air balloon accident. There's no telling what other disastrous deaths await"--

Ideological beliefs have long attracted the attention of social psychologists, who have investigated their genesis as well as their influence on a host of social phenomena. Conservatism, from the Motivated Social Cognition framework, stems from epistemic and existential needs of the individual, and notably the fear of death. However, Terror Management Theory proposes a view of conservatism and its contrary, liberalism, as equivalent cultural worldviews, equally fit to fulfill such needs. In the present contribution, results are presented from five studies, which test the contrasting hypotheses derived from these two perspectives. A new perspective is considered that accounts for these and previous findings.