WP:WikiProject Death

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Welcome to WikiProject Death, a WikiProject that aims to provide a framework for the improvement and organization of human death-related articles on Wikipedia.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask us on our discussion page.

Anyone is welcome to join by listing their username on the participants page and contributing to the project.

=Outstanding articles=

The project — as a multi-disciplinary project covers all articles about human death and related topics such as:

Biological: Agony (death) (de), Brain death, clinical death, decomposition
Customs: Funerals, burials, green burials, cremations, pan-death movement, home funerals
Bioethical issues: Abortion, bioethics, euthanasia, suicide (See: /Suicide task force)
Medical: Terminal illness, End-of-life care, autopsy, forensic science
Large scale: Genocide, massacres, pandemics, global catastrophic risks
Man-made disasters: Transportation disasters (when at least one person died)
Statistics and government: Demographics, death statistics, mortality rate, epidemiology
Legal: Wills, murder, capital punishment
Business: Undertaking, Casket makers, life insurance, crime scene cleanup
People: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Jack Kevorkian
Places: Morgues, cemeteries, mausoleums, extermination camp, execution locations
Religious: Afterlife, reincarnation, resurrection
Process: Types of death, approaches to death and dying, death midwifery, psychological and religious approaches to dying a "good death"
Cultural: Grief, responses to death, fascination with death, death and the Internet
Paranormal: Near-death experience, deathbed phenomena, after-death communication, reincarnation
Folklore: Vampires, zombies, ghosts, revenant (folklore)
Visiting graves: Ziyarat, tombstone tourist

Some topics outside of the scope of the Death project include:

Wars: Wars, battles and invasions. These should be left to WikiProject Military history
Casualties of ... is within scope. For example, Casualties of the September 11 attacks
Natural disasters: Tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, etc.
Casualties of ... is within scope. For example, Casualties of the 2010 Haiti earthquake
Biographies: People who have died, including murder victims. These should be left to WikiProject Biography
Death of ... is within scope. For example, Death of Michael Jackson
Assassination of .. is within scope. For example, Assassination of Julius Caesar
Murder of ... is within scope. For example, Murder of Laci Peterson
Killing of ... is within scope. For example, Killing of David Wilkie
Shooting of ... is within scope. For example, Shooting of Hosie Miller
Killers: Serial killers and murderers. These should be left to WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography
Lists of victims are within scope. For example, Victims of the Night of the Long Knives
Acts of killers and murderers are within scope. For example, Virginia Tech shooting

You can help:

by writing and improving articles
by project maintenance – helping adding project templates to article and category talk pages – see templates page
by assessing articles for quality and assessment standards – see the assessment page
by assessing and recommending resources (online and print) – see the resources page
by communicating with project members – at the project talk page

=Article alerts=

=Requested articles=

Ana Estrada (:es:Ana Estrada)

=Articles needing attention=

List of countries by suicide rate – Uses data from 2008 or earlier. All data is from the World Health Organization, and is arguably inaccurate. Lots of complaints on the talk page.
List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll – Wars and disasters need separating
List of natural disasters by death toll – Types of disasters need separating
List of accidents and disasters by death toll – this needs about 8 or so sub lists – it is toooo loong
List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland by death toll – World disaster lists need standardising in titles and style
List of cemeteries in the United States – This article needs to be cleaned up and split into smaller lists by state.
Deathbed phenomena – rated as Mid-importance but currently only Start-Class for quality
Responses to death (currently a redirect)
Grim reaper – Currently a redirect – should perhaps have its own article
Death of Caylee Anthony – The case was huge and much of the article's narrative (e. g. the disappearance section, which I tried to fix) just takes what the family relayed as granted.