Absolute time

, 12

Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AMRC)

, 39

Accuracy

, 65, 72–73

Advance care planning

, 51

Agency

, 34

Anatomical pathology technologist (APT)

, 61, 70–71

Arts

, 12

Assisted dying

, 42

Astronomy

, 12

Bereaved participants

, 15–16

Bereaved people’s experiences

, 79

death of Melanie Baker

, 80–83

expanded present

, 87–92

fluid time

, 92–93

grief responses to bereavement

, 97–98

liminal space

, 83

relationships

, 93–95

social construction of time of death

, 95–96

timescapes of dying

, 83–87

Biological death

, 36–39, 101

and time

, 52–54

Biological dying of human being

, 84

Brain death

, 38–39

Bureaucratisation

, 61

of measuring time of death

, 73–76

Calendars

, 16–17

Causation

, 14

Certification of death

, 68

Change

, 101

Chronobiology

, 15–16

Chronology

, 5–6

Clocks

, 16

Closed circuit television (CCTV)

, 67

Coroners and Justice Act

, 63

COVID-19

, 41

Cyclical time

, 20–21

Death

, 29, 33, 44, 47, 101–102

of body

, 36, 39, 105

certificates and registrations

, 60

in context

, 105–106

deferring technology and time

, 54

experiencing death of someone of personal importance

, 108–109

grief responses to death

, 44–45

and liminal time

, 54–55

of Melanie Baker

, 80–83

mortality awareness

, 30–32

social

, 33–36

Death the Leveller (Shirley)

, 4

Deferment of death through technological intervention

, 69

Detective stories

, 1

Dying

, 2, 4, 36, 44, 47–48, 117–118

Egyptian calendar

, 16–17

Electronic calendars

, 17

Embodiment and social relations

, 116–117

Emotional space

, 49–50

Experiencing time towards end of life

, 49–51

Family

, 79–80

Fluid time

, 22, 24, 92–93

Folk

, 14

Forensic cases

, 66–67

Funeral

, 65

Genocide/crimes against humanity

, 43–44, 69–70

Greenwich Mean Time

, 18

Gregorian calendar

, 17

Grief responses

to bereavement

, 97–98

to death

, 44–45

Hidden temporal rhythms

, 25–26

Humanities

, 12

International Classification of Diseases (ICD)

, 41

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

, 70

Islamic thought

, 20–21

James Webb Space Telescope

, 14

Julian calendar

, 17

Language

, 20

Least common error

, 64

Legal declaration of death

, 108

Life expectancy

, 4

Liminal space

, 83

Liminal time

, 24–25, 54–55, 83

Liminality

, 24

Linear time

, 20–21

Mechanical timepieces

, 18

Missing people

, 72

Modernity

, 15

Moment of death

, 53

being present at

, 89–90

missing

, 90–91

Moment of dying

, 87

Mortality awareness

, 30–32

and time

, 48–49

Motion

, 13–14

Movement

, 13

Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The (Christie)

, 1

Mystery of time

, 11–16

National Health Service (NHS)

, 62

Natural time

, 16

Non-forensic cases

, 67–69

Online social existence after biological death

, 35

Parallel time

, 23

Pendulum clocks

, 18

Pensions Act of 2014

, 103

Philosophy

, 12

Physics

, 12, 15–16

Physiological death

, 37

Planning for future

, 51

Power of social norms

, 116

Power relations

, 75–76, 116

Psychology

, 12

Quantum mechanics

, 13

Registration Act (1836)

, 63

Reliability

, 65, 72–73

Rhythms

, 15

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)

, 13

Science

, 13

Sherwood Forest

, 13

Social construction of time of death

, 95–96, 99

Social death

, 33, 36, 59, 101, 105–106, 110–111

and time

, 54

Social existence

, 35–36

Social management of lone deaths

, 8

Social sciences

, 12

Social time

, 16

Social understandings of time of death

, 6–7

findings

, 7

Socially proscribed deaths

, 42, 44, 69, 72, 109–110

Technological obscuring of death

, 117

Technology

, 39–41

Temporal dissonance

, 51

Time

, 11, 47, 100–102, 117

of bodily death

, 106–108

as construct

, 103–104

as contextually dependent

, 104–105

differing human perceptions

, 19–21

experiencing

, 21–26

measuring

, 16–19

mystery

, 11–16

as social construct

, 27

social nature of temporal experience

, 26–27

suspension

, 22

talk

, 79–80

Time frame

, 60

Time Machine, The (Wells)

, 113

Time of death

, 2, 55, 59, 79, 88–89, 113, 117–118

as 21st century construct

, 106–111

accuracy or reliability

, 72–73

argument

, 114–115

assigning

, 115–117

bureaucratisation of measuring time of death

, 73–76

conceptual background

, 3–6

core argument

, 2–3

experiencing

, 102

as form of communication

, 115

impetus to record and measure time of death

, 62–65

as legal convention

, 74–75

measuring

, 102

missing people

, 72

recording date and

, 65–69

research studies

, 6–8

as social construction

, 56

socially proscribed deaths

, 69–72

temporal constructs

, 76

Timepieces

, 17–19

Timescapes

, 25

of dying

, 83–87

Universal Coordinated Time

, 104

Usual deaths

, 41–42

Witnessed dying

, 65–66

Witnessed/unwitnessed dying

, 91–92

Work

, 52

World Health Organization (WHO)

, 38, 41, 61

Year

, 17