all sorts of artists & medical anatomists as well as scientists and religionists have been interested in death.

Depending on the writer, Death can be quite fascinating indeed.

Terry Pratchett's Death was better in the books than in the recent TV serial of The Watch.

sef_lopod: The written word is usually better than the televised visualization.

death is a nebulous concept; it's very hard to define in a precise, rigourous way.

Arbieroo: yes; by nature, it’s hard to do a controlled study.