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Themes and Motifs: Death Ambiguous circumstances

Parent Term

  • Death

Sibling Terms

  • Afterlife
  • And inheritance
  • Animal bear
  • Animal Dog
  • Animal horse
  • Animal mule
  • Anticipation of death
  • Bones
  • Burial
  • Burial society
  • Car accident
  • Child
  • Coffin
  • Compared to living
  • Compared to sleep
  • Corpse
  • Death by water / Drowning
  • Death sentence
  • Deathbed
  • Denial
  • Disease
  • Dying wish
  • Epitaph
  • Eulogy
  • Execution
  • Funeral
  • Funeral pyre / cremation
  • Future
  • Hearse
  • Imagined
  • In childbirth
  • Indian burial practices
  • Killing oneself slowly
  • Left for dead
  • Like death
  • Liminal
  • Longing for death
  • Moment of
  • Moving a dead body
  • Murder
  • Of parent
  • Plane accident
  • Preparing for death
  • Respect
  • Response to
  • Spousal
  • Suicide
  • Suspicious
  • Wake

Tagged Events

"Hand upon the Waters", 70 (Event)
Actions: Emotional›Pity
Cultural Issues: Hunting and Fishing›Trotline | Law›County attorney | Technology›Telephone
Themes and Motifs: Death›Ambiguous circumstances | Death›Death by water / Drowning
"Smoke", 10 (Event)
Actions: Violent›Animal abuse
Cultural Issues: Law›Investigation
Themes and Motifs: Death›Ambiguous circumstances
"Smoke", 4 (Event)
Actions: Violent›Animal abuse
Themes and Motifs: Community›Taboos | Death›Ambiguous circumstances
Aesthetics: Genre Conventions›Detective fiction