Table 2.

Antecedents, Attributes, and Consequences of social death in patients.

Antecedents of social death in patients	Attributes of social death in patients	Consequences of social death in patients
•The factors related to the patient (include details of the disease, the individual's personal attributes, beliefs and value systems, and his economic, cultural and social status) •Family neglect •Medical personnel's treatment of the patient as a corpse •Having no social situation	•Loss of social identity (Rejection, being ignored and excluded by others or oneself, social withdrawal and loneliness, and the loss of personage and a valuable life) •Deficiencies related to physical inefficiencies and various diseases •Loss of social relations (social isolation)	•Bad death •Loss of social identity •Destruction of the social roles and relations of the person or group •Disgraceful death (dying with no social character and identity) •inevitably converted into a “nobody” •Deprivation of belonging to the society •Financial vulnerability •Removed/weakened legal support •Stigma