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      "understand legal steps after a death",
      "reach crisis services if someone is at risk"
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        "Publish images or details of a person's death without respect for the family.",
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        "Bereaved families"
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        "Civil death registers",
        "Cause of death statistics"
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      "properties": "Death is a biological state or event rather than a physical object with a common set of physical properties across organisms, tissues and cells."
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                    "text": "Is the person expressing thoughts of ending their life, needing a crisis line or emergency services now?",
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                  {
                    "text": "Which crisis service serves their country?",
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                  }
                ]
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                    "text": "How do apoptosis and necrosis differ?",
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                  {
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                ]
              }
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        ]
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                    "text": "What legal steps follow a death here, such as registration?",
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                    "text": "Where is official guidance?",
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                    "text": "Is the request seeking ways to cause death or harm?",
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                    "text": "How should the agent decline and offer support?",
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                  }
                ]
              }
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                    "text": "How do traditions understand death, according to their own sources?",
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                    "text": "Are beliefs attributed respectfully?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
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              }
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        ]
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    "Should cell death be a separate entry?",
    "How should bereavement and crisis services be localised?",
    "How should cultural practices be linked respectfully?"
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