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Death poem
Death poem (jisei, 辞世), the Japanese farewell poem to life, composed on the deathbed in tanka, kanshi, or haiku form; shaped by Zen, practiced by monks, samurai, and poets, and distinct from wills and ordinary late-life verse.
Death Proof
Death Proof is a 2007 American exploitation-horror film directed by Quentin Tarantino, starring Kurt Russell as Stuntman Mike, a stunt driver who murders women with his car.
Death Race (2008 film)
Death Race (2008) is a Paul W.S. Anderson action film for Universal, loosely remaking Death Race 2000, starring Jason Statham as framed prisoner Jensen Ames racing as Frankenstein.
Death Race (franchise)
Death Race franchise: dystopian racing media starting with Death Race 2000 (1975, Roger Corman/Paul Bartel), Exidy's controversial 1976 arcade game, Paul W.S. Anderson's 2008 remake with Jason Statham, and the prequels, Death Race 2050, and comic Death Race 2020.
Death Race 2
Death Race 2 (2010) is a direct-to-video action prequel to the 2008 film Death Race, directed by Roel Reiné, starring Luke Goss as Carl Lucas, the origin of Frankenstein, released January 18, 2011.
Death Race 2000
Death Race 2000 (1975) is a Paul Bartel dystopian action comedy produced by Roger Corman, starring David Carradine as Frankenstein and Sylvester Stallone, in which Transcontinental Road Race drivers score points by killing pedestrians; a cult classic remade in 2008.
Death Race 3: Inferno
Death Race 3: Inferno (Death Race: Inferno) is a 2013 direct-to-video American sci-fi action film directed by Roel Reiné, starring Luke Goss as Carl Lucas/Frankenstein in the first Kalahari Desert Death Race; a prequel to the 2008 Death Race.
Death Race for Love
Death Race for Love (2019) is Juice WRLD's second studio album on Grade A/Interscope: 22 tracks in 72 minutes with guests Brent Faiyaz, Clever, and Young Thug; it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 and was his last album released in his lifetime.
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy (2018) is the fourth Death Race film, a direct-to-video action movie directed by Don Michael Paul, starring Zach McGowan as Connor Gibson infiltrating the Sprawl prison to defeat Frankenstein.
Death ray
The death ray, also known as the death beam, is a hypothetical directed-energy weapon pursued from the 1870s through World War II but never built as described.
Death Receptor Signaling
Death Receptor Signaling: apoptosis pathway from TNFRSF death receptors (TNFR1, Fas/CD95, TRAIL-R1/2, DR3, DR6) via death domains, FADD, DISC, caspase-8; also NF-kappaB survival signaling.
Death row
Death row is the prison section holding people sentenced to death pending appeals or execution. About 25,508 people were under death sentence worldwide at end of 2025; housing varies from solitary confinement to shared units.
Death Row Records
Death Row Records: Los Angeles hip-hop label founded 1991 by Suge Knight and Dr. Dre; released The Chronic and Doggystyle, defined G-funk, went bankrupt in 2006, and was bought by Snoop Dogg in 2022.
Death Sentence (2007 film)
Death Sentence is a 2007 American vigilante thriller directed by James Wan, starring Kevin Bacon as a father who takes revenge on the gang that killed his son.
Death spiral (figure skating)
Death spiral: a required pair figure skating element (BODS, BIDS, FIDS, FODS) in which the man pivots holding his partner's hand while she circles low, nearly parallel to the ice; one full revolution is the validity minimum.
Death squad
Death squads are clandestine groups carrying out extrajudicial killings, disappearances, and torture, usually with state tolerance or sponsorship for deniability; documented in Guatemala, El Salvador, Brazil, and elsewhere, and still active today.
Death Star
Death Star (DS-1 Orbital Battle Station): fictional moon-sized Imperial battle station in Star Wars, armed with a planet-destroying kyber-crystal superlaser; 160 km diameter, about 1.2 million crew; destroyed Alderaan and was destroyed at the Battle of Yavin.
Death Stranding
Death Stranding (デス・ストランディング) is Kojima Productions' 2019 PS4 open-world action game, also on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and cloud, where courier Sam Bridges delivers cargo across BT-haunted America using the asynchronous Social Strand System.
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is Kojima Productions' open-world action sequel to Death Stranding, released June 26, 2025 on PS5 and March 19, 2026 on PC, set in Mexico and Australia with expanded combat and a Metacritic score of 89.
Death studies
Death studies: interdisciplinary field researching death, dying, and bereavement, related to thanatology; leading journals Death Studies, Mortality, OMEGA; grief research predominates, led by psychology.
Death threat
A death threat is a message or deed expressing firm intent to kill or gravely injure someone, criminal when it meets standards of seriousness, credibility, and intent.
Death to 2020
Death to 2020 is a 70-minute Netflix mockumentary special by Black Mirror creators Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones, released 27 December 2020, mixing archival 2020 footage with fictitious talking heads; critics rated it poorly (45% RT, Metacritic 41).
Death to America (مرگ بر آمریکا)
Death to America (Marg bar Amrika, مرگ بر آمریکا) is Iran's anti-American slogan from the 1979 revolution, chanted at Friday prayers and November 4 embassy-takeover rallies; officials say it targets US policy, not the American people.
Death to Israel (مرگ بر اسرائیل)
"Death to Israel" (Persian: Marg bar Isrâ'il, also "Down with Israel") is an anti-Israel political slogan chanted at state rallies in Iran, often paired with "Death to America."
Death to Smoochy
Death to Smoochy, also spelled Death to Smoochie, is a 2002 black comedy directed by Danny DeVito, satirizing children's television through Robin Williams and Edward Norton as rival kiddie-show hosts.
Death Valley
Death Valley, California, is a desert valley in eastern California and the hottest and lowest national park in North America, holding the world heat record of 134 °F.
Death Valley (British TV series)
Death Valley is a BBC One comedy crime drama created by Paul Doolan, starring Timothy Spall as retired TV-detective actor John Chapel and Gwyneth Keyworth as DS Janie Mallowan, solving murders in Wales; series 1 premiered 25 May 2025 to 2.9 million viewers.
Death Valley Days
Death Valley Days: American Western anthology series created by Ruth Woodman in 1930, sponsored by Pacific Coast Borax (20 Mule Team Borax); ran on radio from 1930 and on syndicated television 1952-1970, hosted by Stanley Andrews, Ronald Reagan, Robert Taylor, and Dale Robertson.
Death Valley Germans
Death Valley Germans: Dresden family of four (Egbert Rimkus, Georg Weber, Cornelia Meyer, Max Meyer) who vanished in Death Valley National Park in July 1996; their stuck rental van was found that October, and their remains were located in 2009 near Goler Wash.
Death Valley National Park
Death Valley National Park (CA/NV), formerly Death Valley National Monument (1933, park 1994), is the largest U.S. national park outside Alaska: Badwater Basin at 282 feet below sea level, 130°F heat, borax mining history, Timbisha Shoshone homeland.