Talk:Stages of death
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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 30 August 2021 and 21 September 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Manuelladj, Nomoremisinformation, PLOWMINION.
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If alright with your team, I will go ahead and link a few of the terms listed in this page to other Wikipedia pages! I see this request commented above. — Preceding unsigned comment added by NJodkoN (talk • contribs) 01:31, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
Sequence of the stages
[edit]@Lord Urjit: Algor mortis is presumably the very first stage since the temperature begins to drop immediately after the hypothalamus ceases to function and the circulation stops. Pallor mortis and livor mortis set in after about 15 and 30 minutes, respectively. Rigor mortis follows starting from the 1st hour of death. Although the "chillness" becomes blatant only after 15 to 30 minutes, it begins immediately following death, technically speaking. So, shouldn't the order be algor, pallor, livor, rigor, putrefaction, decomposition, skeletonization, and fossilization? Rasnaboy (talk) 13:40, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
- Depends on whether Algor Mortis means only the decline in body temperature or the reaching of the ambient temperature. I don't know which one is correct. I made my edit to avoid contradictions between the template for Stages of Death (which puts Algor Mortis third) and the page for Algor Mortis (which previously put Algor Mortis fourth). Lord Urjit (talk) 19:00, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
Inclusion of animals
[edit]This article is blatantly human-centric, and barely includes animals, except a mention of warm-blooded animals.
Thorough expansion and advice is needed from experts in biology and thanatology (study of death).
I was wondering which Wikipedia policy promotes the inclusion of animals. There does not seem to be a policy which directly supports the cause, but there is a relevant maintenance template, {{Human-centric}}, that I have added to the article.
I think that WP:NPOV seems to be a policy that supports the cause of inclusion of animals in articles. — CrafterNova [ TALK ] [ CONT ] 17:32, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
- I agree @CrafterNova:. Stages of death is a generic biological topic and should include all animals. The scope of the article allows for it. Being an encyclopedic topic, I don't think it necessarily requires any exclusive policy per se to include it. WP:NOTCENSORED can also be cited. Rasnaboy (talk) 05:41, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
Sounds like a topic for a new article about plant & animal (non-human) death. The common assumption when talking about death is of humans, just like an article about war or murder or transportation would be expected to be of humans. Frankly, the quest by a few to add chickadees, sea slugs, algae, and crabgrass to this article about (human) death is WP:FRINGE. Cramyourspam (talk) 06:35, 21 August 2024 (UTC)
- Cramyourspam, why would the article on stages of death be solely about humans? Should content about non-human organisms be removed from the article Death as well? ~ F4U (talk • they/it) 13:46, 23 August 2024 (UTC)