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Death at a Funeral (2010 film)
Death at a Funeral (2010) is Neil LaBute's American remake of the 2007 Frank Oz British farce, written by Dean Craig, starring Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence, and Peter Dinklage reprising his role; it grossed $49 million worldwide.
Death Battle
Death Battle (DEATH BATTLE!) is Ben Singer's web series pitting fictional characters in researched fights to the death. Created 2010 at ScrewAttack, later Rooster Teeth, independent under Party Up Media since 2024.
Death Becomes Her
Death Becomes Her is a 1992 Robert Zemeckis black comedy starring Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, and Bruce Willis about rivals drinking an immortality potion; ILM's first computer-generated human skin texture earned an Academy Award, and a 2024 Broadway musical followed.
Death Becomes Her (musical)
Death Becomes Her (musical), a Broadway musical comedy based on the 1992 Robert Zemeckis film, opened November 21, 2024 at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, ran 666 performances, earned 10 Tony nominations with one win, and launched a North American tour in September 2026.
Death Before Dishonor (2026)
ROH Death Before Dishonor 2026, the 23rd Death Before Dishonor, was a Ring of Honor pay-per-view on August 21, 2026 at Philadelphia's 2300 Arena on HonorClub; Bandido and Athena retained world titles, Lethal Twist and Action Andretti won championships.
Death by boiling
Death by boiling: execution by immersion in boiling water or oil. Known chiefly from Henry VIII's 1531 Acte for Poysoning; victims included Richard Roose and Margaret Davy at Smithfield; repealed 1547.
Death by burning
Death by burning, or burning at the stake, is an execution method historically used for heresy, witchcraft, and treason, codified in laws such as the 1530 Constitutio Criminalis Carolina and now banned under international human rights law.
Death by coconut
Death by coconut: fatalities from coconuts falling from 24–35 m palms, weighing 1–4 kg. The famous 150-deaths-per-year claim is an urban legend from a 2002 quote; documented injuries are real but deaths rare.
Death by Hanging (絞死刑)
Death by Hanging (絞死刑, Koshikei) is Nagisa Oshima's 1968 Japanese black-and-white satire in which a zainichi Korean man, based on the 1958 Komatsugawa case, survives his execution; a Brechtian ATG New Wave film on capital punishment and anti-Korean discrimination.
Death by Lightning
Death by Lightning is a 2025 Netflix four-part historical drama, created by Mike Makowsky and directed by Matt Ross, based on Candice Millard's Destiny of the Republic, starring Michael Shannon as President James A. Garfield and Matthew Macfadyen as his assassin Charles Guiteau.
Death by Magic
Death by Magic is a 2018 Netflix reality series, also called Todesursache: Magie, in which British magician Drummond Money-Coutts (DMC) recreates stunts that killed other magicians across eight episodes.
Death by sawing
Death by sawing: a historical execution method in which a condemned person was cut in half with a saw, often suspended upside down; reported from antiquity and medieval Europe, declined with Enlightenment reforms.
Death Cab for Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie is an American indie rock band formed in Bellingham, Washington in 1997, fronted by Ben Gibbard. Known for Transatlanticism, Plans, and The Postal Service connection, its eleventh album I Built You a Tower arrived in 2026 on ANTI-.
Death certificate
Death certificate: official vital-records document stating a person's identity, fact of death, cause, and manner of death; also called medical certificate of cause of death (MCCD), source of mortality statistics.
Death Certificate (album)
Death Certificate is Ice Cube's second studio album, released October 29, 1991 on Priority/EMI; 20 tracks including Black Korea and the N.W.A. diss No Vaseline; condemned by Billboard, later ranked a rap essential.
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Death Comes for the Archbishop is Willa Cather's 1927 Knopf novel about French priests Jean Marie Latour and Joseph Vaillant building the Catholic church in New Mexico, modeled on Bishop Jean Baptiste Lamy and Father Joseph Machebeuf.
Death Comes to Pemberley (TV series)
Death Comes to Pemberley: three-part 2013 BBC One drama adapted from P.D. James's 2011 sequel novel to Pride and Prejudice, starring Matthew Rhys and Anna Maxwell Martin as the Darcys investigating a murder at Pemberley.
Death domain
Death domain (DD): a six-helical protein interaction module, first named in 1993 from TNFR1, that with its DED, CARD, and PYD subfamilies scaffolds apoptotic and inflammatory signaling complexes such as the DISC, apoptosome, PIDDosome, and Myddosome.
Death drive
Death drive (Todestrieb, Thanatos): Freud's hypothetical force opposed to Eros, introduced in Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920), tied to repetition compulsion and the return to the inorganic; widely criticized and scientifically reassessed.
Death during consensual sex
Death during consensual sex, usually sudden cardiac death from myocardial infarction or arrhythmia triggered by the modest 3-5 MET exertion of intercourse; rare, about 0.2% of sudden cardiac deaths, mostly older men with coronary disease.
Death Eater
Death Eaters (Les Mangemorts), originally Knights of Walpurgis, are Lord Voldemort's fictional supremacist followers in Harry Potter, marked by the Dark Mark, seeking pure-blood supremacy and conquest of wizarding Britain.
Death flights
Death flights (Spanish: vuelos de la muerte) were executions used by Argentina's military dictatorship, in which sedated detainees were thrown from planes between 1976 and 1983.
Death from laughter
Death from laughter: fatal collapse during intense laughter, chiefly through cardiac events such as torsade de pointes in long QT syndrome, or via laughter-induced (gelastic) syncope; famous case is Chrysippus, who reportedly died laughing at a donkey eating figs.
Death Fugue
Death Fugue (Todesfuge) is a poem by Paul Celan, written in 1944 and 1945, addressing the Holocaust through a structure modeled on the musical fugue.
Death Game
Death Game, also released as The Seducers, is a 1977 American psychological thriller directed by Peter S. Traynor, starring Sondra Locke, Colleen Camp, and Seymour Cassel, in which two women seduce and torment a businessman in his San Francisco home; US release April 13, 1977.
Death Grips
Death Grips: Sacramento experimental hip-hop group (Zach Hill, MC Ride/Stefan Burnett, Andy Morin) formed 2010; Exmilitary, The Money Store, Epic Records fallout, The Powers That B, Bottomless Pit, Year of the Snitch.
Death growl
Death growl: the low, harsh, distorted extreme-metal vocal technique (also called death grunt or guttural vocals) produced with false vocal folds, credited to Jeff Becerra and codified by Death's Scream Bloody Gore in 1987.
Death Has a Shadow
"Death Has a Shadow" is the January 31, 1999 series premiere of Family Guy, written by Seth MacFarlane, directed by Peter Shin, aired after Super Bowl XXXIII; Peter loses his job and collects excess welfare.
Death Has No Master
Death Has No Master (La muerte no tiene dueño) is Jorge Thielen Armand's 2026 Venezuelan-Canadian-Italian-Luxembourg thriller starring Asia Argento, premiered at Cannes Directors' Fortnight, about an heiress whose cacao plantation mansion is occupied by former staff.
Death in a Stone Cell
Death in a Stone Cell (石室之死亡) is a landmark modernist long poem by the Taiwanese poet Lo Fu, begun in 1959 during the Kinmen–Xiamen artillery exchange and published in 1965.