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Mind-induced death

  • Psychogenic death

Incidence

In a study of deaths over 25 years in the Chinese community in California, it was discovered that mortality fell by 35% in the week before the Harvest Moon festival and then increased the week after -- leading to the conclusion that death can be briefly postponed until after the occurrence of a significant occasion.

Broader

Suicide
Excellent

Aggravates

Related

Strategy

Inducing death
Yet to rate

Value

Death
Yet to rate

Reference

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #3: Good Health and Well-being

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems
Subject
Content quality
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Language
English
Last update
Oct 4, 2020