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Immortal-living forever

Inferno-resembling hell; place for death or suffering 

Inherit-to receive things via a will

In testate-having died with a will or last testament

Intrapsychic-things that happen in a person's mind (e.g., thoughts, memories, dreams)

Involuntary euthanasia-killing of someone opposite of their wishes; a form of murder

Itai-a person's remains

Kamikaze-general term today for suicidal recklessness; from the Japanese word for "divine wind"; also Japanese pilot during WWII that crashed their planes into targets on suicide runs

Lament-to express grief passionately

Last offices-(British) when a nurse takes care of a corpse (washing, covering it, etc.)

Legacy-something bequeathed or handed down

Lex talionis-"Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth"; used to justify capital punishment

Life insurance-a polity that compensates survivors upon the holders death 

Lie in state-public viewing of a corpse

Living Will-a document that communicates for someone their wishes to medical personnel in the even that they can no longer communicate their wishes themselves

Loss-being deprived of something valued; end of a relationship or attachment

Lucid dreaming-you're dreaming while you know you are dreaming

Lynch-execute (especially by hanging) without a trial

Martyrdom/Martyr-when one dies for a belief

Masked grief-this type of grief is manifest by the absence of grief symptoms or when grief appears unrelated to the loss

Mausoleum-monument holding the dead

Mecrobiosis-physical death of the body cells

Mecrology-obituary

Medical examiner-a forensic pathologist who looks into unexplained deaths (RE: Quincy)

Memento mori-"Remember thy death" (Latin)

Memorial-a remembrance

Memorial home-funeral home

Memorial service-similar to a funeral except sans the body

Mercy killing-this is what "assisted killing" use to be referred to

Morbid-relating to disease; the gruesome or unwholesome

Morbidity-frequency of diseases, illnesses and injuries in a group of people

Moribund-approaching death

Morose-melancholy 

Mortal-subject to death

Mortality-being mortal; death rate

Mortcloth-a reusable cloth used to cover the body or coffin (Scottish)

Mortician-funeral director

Multiple cremations-the cremation of several bodies at one time

Muscular suture-keeping the mouth of a corpse closed by tying the lower lip to the inner nose

Mourn-grieve and remember a dead loved one

Murder-Suicide-a person commits a homicide and then commits suicide