title: [Thanatogenesis].
abstract: The analysis of classifications of causes of death contained in handbooks and manuals of pathological anatomy and forensic medicine revealed their contradictory character, inconsistency with the principles of logic, division according to one basis only; in these classifications of causes and circumstances leading to death. The author recommends to distinguish: a classification of causes of death (biological) and a classification of circumstances accompanying death (of social-legislative character).
mesh_terms: D002965:Classification; D006801:Humans; D009026:Mortality; D014586:USSR
vernacular_title: Nekotorye voprosy tanatogeneza