Talk:Simultaneous death

Is simultaneous death only considered to be accidental? What about homicides (the married couples aboard one of the 9/11 airliners, for example)? Does the concept only affect accidental death? --NellieBly (talk) 05:26, 27 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I've a vague recollection of a (childless) Peer of the Realm whose title was deemed to have passed, albeit briefly, to his brother when both were killed in a Nazi air raid on London, so deaths as a result of human ****ery seem to be included at least under English law. Your legal system may vary :-) Mr Larrington (talk) 00:19, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
 * On 16 April 1941, the first Baron Stamp was killed by a German bomb, as was his son Wilfred. Legally, the son was presumed to have died a fraction of a second after his father, and therefore is supposed to have succeeded to the title for that short amount of time. The second Baron was succeeded by his younger brother, the third Baron. —Tamfang (talk) 04:46, 9 July 2023 (UTC)

Proposed merge
It seems to me that a Titanic clause is just a specific iteration of the problem of simultaneous death, and should be merged in here, at least unless and until enough material is found to require two separate articles. bd2412 T 02:54, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Lord Peter Wimsey investigates
Is The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club worth a link? —Tamfang (talk) 21:02, 10 March 2011 (UTC)