Social death. Social death is the condition of people not accepted as fully human by wider society. Used by sociologists like Zygmunt Bauman and historians of slavery and the Holocaust to describe the part played by governmental and social segregation in that process. Examples of social death are:
Chronic pericarditis often causes tiredness, coughing, and shortness of breath. Chest pain often is absent in this type of pericarditis. Severe cases of chronic pericarditis can lead to swelling in the stomach and legs and hypotension (low blood pressure).
1 Pneumonia or blood clots in the vessels supplying the lungs tend to cause shortness of breath and sharp pains that intensify with a deep breath. 2  Pericarditis. 3  Inflammation of the tissues around the heart (pericarditis) can cause a sharp pain that often worsens when you lie down. 4  Costochondritis. Lung conditions. 2  Pneumonia or blood clots in the vessels supplying the lungs tend to cause shortness of breath and sharp pains that intensify with a deep breath. 3  Pericarditis. 4  Inflammation of the tissues around the heart (pericarditis) can cause a sharp pain that often worsens when you lie down.