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'''Death''' is the cessation of all bodily functions necessary to sustain life.

== Summary ==
A dead pawn can no longer act, and creates a [[corpse]] if its body was not completely destroyed. No organs or [[Artificial body parts|artificial parts]] may be retrieved, and any [[apparel]] items they were wearing will become [[tainted]]. Death activates a [[death acidifier]].

Colonist deaths cause various [[mood]] penalties. Pawns connected by family or relationship will be especially devastated. Animals [[bond]]ed to a dead pawn may receive a [[mental break]], while a bonded animal dying gives a mood penalty to the pawn it's bonded to. A pawn's [[Ideoligion]]{{IdeologyIcon}} may change how they feel about various deaths.

== Causes ==
* Loss of a vital body part. For [[human]]s, this is the torso, brain, head, neck, [[heart]], and [[liver]]. Losing both [[kidney]]s or both [[lung]]s is also fatal.
* Reaching 0% [[Consciousness]], [[Blood Filtration]], [[Blood Pumping]], [[Breathing]], or [[Digestion]].
* Taking over a total amount of damage across all body parts. For adult humans, this is 150 HP. For other pawns, this is (150 HP * health scale).
: An [[elephant]], with a health scale of 3.6, would take a maximum of (3.6 * 150) = 540 HP of damage.  Note that [[pain]] will usually [[downed|down]] humans and other organic pawns far below this HP threshold. An unmodified baseline human would be downed from 80 HP ''at the maximum''.
* Having certain [[ailments]] reach 100% severity. These include:
** [[Blood loss]]
** [[Malnutrition]]
** Fatal [[disease]]s
** [[Hypothermia]] & [[Heatstroke]]
** [[Artery blockage]] & [[Heart attack]]
** [[Drug]] [[overdose]]
** [[Toxic buildup]]
** [[Resurrection psychosis]]
** [[Growth vat#Summary|Biostarvation]]{{BiotechIcon}}
* Randomly while [[overdose|majorly overdosing]] or under [[Luciferium]] withdrawal.
* Having [[collapsed rocks]] from overhead mountain fall on top of them.
* Chance to die when failing certain specific [[surgery|surgeries]], such as installing a [[prosthetic heart]] ([[bionic heart]]s are safe to install) or [[carcinoma]] removal.
* [[Genes#Drugs|Drug dependency]] [[gene]],{{BiotechIcon}} after 60 days without the drug.
* During [[Reproduction|human pregnancy]].{{BiotechIcon}}

Enemy pawns have an additional chance to die when [[downed]] from [[pain shock]] or when their [[moving]] capacity is reduced below 15% directly by damage, even if their condition otherwise would not kill them. This chance is dependent on current population and the [[AI Storytellers#Enemy death on downed|storyteller settings]], and can be adjusted at any time. Other causes of downing, such as from blood loss or heatstroke, do not trigger this death chance.

In addition, enemy [[mechanoid]]s will always die when downed.

== Resurrection ==
[[Resurrector mech serum]] is the only vanilla, gameplay way to resurrect a dead pawn. It only works on non-desiccated corpses. Resurrection runs the risk of causing [[blindness]], brain damage, or [[resurrection psychosis]]. The chance of each side effect happening is based on how much the body has rotted; a preserved (frozen) corpse can be resurrected many years after death with a low risk of side-effects.

When preserving a corpse via freezing, it is recommended to ensure the freezer used is kept at a very low temperature and is well-insulated; over time, repeated power loss due to solar flares, raids, etc. can repeatedly thaw the body and allow it to rot. Taking the mentioned precautionary steps can mitigate or prevent intermittent rotting entirely.

== Death in Biotech ==
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Mechanics that interact with death in the [[Biotech DLC]].

=== Deathless ===
The [[deathless]] gene prevents death no matter how injured the pawn gets; the only thing that can kill a deathless pawn is total destruction of the brain. Destroying the head or the neck will also destroy the brain. In cases when a pawn would usually be dead but possesses the deathless gene, they will simply enter a regenerative coma; once all fatal injuries/ailments have healed, they will remain in the coma for 7 days.

Pawns with both the deathless and the [[deathrest]] gene will enter [[deathrest]], rather than a coma. Once fatal injuries and/or aliments are cured, the pawn goes through ordinary deathrest, which lasts for 4 days by default.

In both cases, all fatal injuries or aliments must be healed before they can begin these countdowns. Pawns recover from injuries, ailments, and diseases at the normal rate{{Check Tag|Verify|Is it the normal standing rate, the normal resting in bed rate, does anything affect it?}} during their coma, but still only heal issues that they could heal normally. For example, a pawn will sufficiently recover from "fatal" [[bloodloss]] to begin the countdown in under a day, diseases will disable the pawn until 100% immunity is reached. But, except for the torso, no body parts are regenerated, so a destroyed vital organ such as a [[heart]] must be surgically replaced before they can start to wake up.

=== Mechanoid resurrection ===
[[Allied mechanoid]]s can be resurrected at a [[mech gestator]] or [[large mech gestator]]. This takes 1 [[gestation cycle]] (1.8 days by default) and a size-dependent amount of [[steel]]. You can't revive enemy mechanoids, even if they were once part of your faction.

The [[apocriton]] can revive enemy mechanoids.

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