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Death of Jay Slater
Death of Jay Slater: 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer from Oswaldtwistle who vanished in Tenerife on 17 June 2024 after the NRG festival and was found dead in the Juan López ravine near Masca; a 2025 inquest ruled accidental fall.
Death of Juliana Marins
The death of Juliana Marins was the 2025 fatal fall of a 26-year-old Brazilian dancer and publicist from a trail on Mount Rinjani, Indonesia, after a four-day search.
Death of Naya Rivera
Death of Naya Rivera: the Glee actress (Santana Lopez) drowned July 8, 2020, at Lake Piru, Ventura County, while boating with her 4-year-old son; body found July 13, ruled accidental drowning.
Death of Nex Benedict
Nex Benedict (Dagny Benedict), 16, a nonbinary Choctaw sophomore, died February 8, 2024, one day after a restroom fight at Owasso High School, Oklahoma. Ruled a suicide; federal OCR found Title IX violations; family lawsuit pending.
Death of Parker Wells
Death of Parker Wells: 11-year-old non-verbal autistic Calgary boy who vanished from a day home July 16, 2026, found dead July 29 in a Deerfoot Trail stormwater pipe; death ruled non-criminal, prompting a 911 dispatch review and Alberta Amber Alert criteria review.
Death of Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston, an American singer, died on February 11, 2012, in Beverly Hills. The cause was ruled accidental drowning, with heart disease and cocaine use as contributing factors.
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.
Deaths in January 2025
Deaths in January 2025: notable deaths that month, including David Lynch, Marianne Faithfull, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Costas Simitis, Wayne Osmond, Peter Yarrow, Sam Moore, Dick Button, and Julius Chan.
Deaths of Divine Adili and Rene Baterbonia
Deaths of Divine Adili and Rene Baterbonia: June 8, 2026 drownings of two Ateneo Blue Eagles players, ages 21 and 18, at Dipaculao, Aurora, Philippines, followed by homicide complaints and viral misinformation.
Debate
Debate is a structured, adversarial exchange arguing opposing positions to persuade an audience, distinguished from dialogue and consensus-seeking deliberation; used in democratic education, public deliberation, and multi-agent AI reasoning protocols.
Deborah Read
Deborah Read Franklin (c. 1707/1708-1774) was Benjamin Franklin's common-law wife from 1730 and a Philadelphia businesswoman who managed the Franklin shops, printing operations, and post office affairs during his long absences in Europe; she died of a stroke in December 1774.
Debutante
Debutante: a young upper-class woman formally presented to society at a debutante ball. English in origin (Queen Charlotte's Ball, London Season), spread to America; declined after the 1960s, revived in the 2000s.
Decadence
Decadence: a condition of moral or cultural decline in societies and art, from medieval Latin decadentia; also the fin-de-siecle Decadent movement of Baudelaire, Wilde, and Huysmans embracing artifice and excess.
Deception
Deception is the intentional misleading of others through words or behaviors. Covers its definition, its history as a method in psychology from 1887 onward, the cognitive theory of lying, truth-default theory, and modest lie-detection accuracy.
Decision-making
Decision-making, also called the decision-making process or choice making, is the selection of one course of action from alternatives when outcomes are uncertain, studied across psychology, economics, and neuroscience.
Declaration of nullity
Declaration of nullity (annulment, decree of nullity): a court or tribunal ruling that a marriage or other legal act was never valid from the outset; covers void vs voidable marriages in civil law and declarative nullity judgments in Catholic canon law.
Declaration of Sentiments
Declaration of Sentiments: 1848 women's rights statement drafted by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mary Ann M'Clintock for the Seneca Falls Convention, modeled on the Declaration of Independence, signed by 68 women and 32 men, demanding suffrage and equal rights.
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
UNDRIP (A/RES/61/295) is the UN General Assembly declaration adopted 13 September 2007 by 143 votes to 4, setting out indigenous peoples' rights to self-determination, lands, and free, prior and informed consent; non-binding but politically and morally influential.
Decline of Detroit
Decline of Detroit: the Motor City's fall from 1,849,600 residents in 1950 to about 633,000, driven by deindustrialization, suburban flight, and the 2013 $18 billion bankruptcy, with tentative stabilization since.
Decree nisi
Decree nisi: provisional divorce order (now "conditional order" in England and Wales since 6 April 2022) showing the court sees no bar to divorce; parties stay married until the decree absolute (final order), applyable 43 days later.
Defence mechanism
A defence mechanism, also known as a psychological defense mechanism, is an automatic unconscious process that regulates emotional conflict, proposed by Sigmund Freud in 1894.
Defense of Marriage Act
Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), 1996 U.S. federal law, P.L. 104-199, defining marriage for federal purposes as one man and one woman; Section 3 struck down by United States v. Windsor (2013) and repealed by the Respect for Marriage Act (2022).
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is a 2012 U.S. executive-action program granting renewable two-year deportation relief and work authorization to undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children; held unlawful in litigation since 2021, with renewals continuing but new applications blocked.
Defining Issues Test
The Defining Issues Test (DIT) is a psychometric test of moral judgment development, introduced by James Rest in 1974 as a paper-and-pencil alternative to Kohlberg's interview.
Definitions of whiteness in the United States
Definitions of whiteness in the United States: federal (OMB SPD 15, Census), legal (1790 Naturalization Act, Ozawa, Thind), and social criteria for who counts as White, including the 2024 MENA removal and boundary expansion to European ethnics.
Dehumanization
Dehumanization is the attribution of subhuman qualities to people or groups. Key frameworks are Haslam's dual model (animalistic vs mechanistic) and infrahumanization; it is linked to violence, genocide propaganda, and contested trait-based measurement.
Dehumanization of Jews and Israelis in Palestinian discourse
Dehumanization of Jews and Israelis in Palestinian discourse refers to documented animal comparisons, disease metaphors, and eliminationist language in Palestinian Authority media, Hamas communications, and school materials.
Dehumanization of Palestinians in Israeli discourse
Dehumanization of Palestinians in Israeli discourse: documented animalistic and subhuman rhetoric by Israeli officials and media, notably Gallant's 'human animals' and Netanyahu's Amalek references, analyzed by scholars, NGOs, and UN bodies.
Déjà vu
Déjà vu, French for "already seen", is the false feeling that a new situation was experienced before, linked to temporal lobe-hippocampus miscommunication, experienced by most people, and a recognized temporal lobe epilepsy seizure feature.
Delano family
Delano family, American lineage from Philippe de Lannoy (de la Noye), a 1621 Fortune Pilgrim; rose via New Bedford whaling and the Canton China trade; Sara Delano was FDR's mother.