The group also drew up lists of lawmakers and police and military personnel, though the archive did not release individual names, and officials insisted at the time that the notes did not constitute a "death list".
Lawyers for the woman, Lesly Yajayra Perdomo, a health care company account executive in Reno, Nev., argued that a high murder rate for women in her native Guatemala meant that deporting her would constitute "a death sentence".
In Canada, a judge's ruling that a poem constituted a death threat is being appealed: "Antonio Batista wrote the poem about Pat Saito, a Ward 9 Mississauga councillor, after he received a property tax bill in 2005 meant for a developer and had trouble sorting out the problem".
The fact that there were also the names of six prominent climate sceptics on the tombstone led the Telegraph newspaper to denounce it as "tasteless" and "obnoxious", and for one of those named, Christopher Monckton, to claim the artwork constituted a death threat.
In an industry with rapid-fire innovation like that of the global mobile device industry, attitudes like these constitute a death sentence.
Mere absence was enough to constitute a death after 9/11, though some disappearances were highly ambiguous, and the identification of bone fragments was often purely to allow families some closure.
Autophagy is also frequently observed in dying cells, prompting the suggestion that it can constitute a death mechanism [18].
What constitutes a "good death"?
The idea that a funeral should include the person's favourite Beatles song signals the move to a new cultural frame of what constitutes a good death.
There is no settled answer to what constitutes a good death, and even to ask evokes raw emotions – perhaps especially today, as we mourn so many who were denied the choice.
