In this answer , Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu wrote about various types of death (quoted below).
1. Where can I find references to and more info on the various types of death that is mentioned - khaṇika-maraṇa, sammuti-maraṇa and samuccheda-maraṇa? It can be from the Pali Canon or other sources.
2. Are there also other types of death? According to this source , there is also paramattha-maraṇa (ultimate death).
3. Does sammuti-maraṇa refer to physical death? This source calls it "conventional death".
Any other additional info or explanation is welcomed.
> The Buddha never, afaik, used a term that could be translated as
> "rebirth". In fact, the idea of anything being reborn goes against
> orthodox early Buddhist teachings. Throughout the Buddha's teachings,
> it is made clear that at the breakup of the body there is birth, not
> rebirth - as in birth of new things, not the return of anything old.
>
> ... In this
> life, there is what is called *khaṇika-maraṇa* - death of a moment.
> Each momentary experience is born and dies, never to arise again. At
> the moment of conceptual death (*sammuti-maraṇa*), this process of
> momentary birth and death continues unimpeded unless one has
> experienced "death by cutting off" (*samuccheda-maraṇa*) - i.e. of the
> defilements (q.v. Vism VIII.167) - in which case there is no further
> arising.
>
> To put it succinctly, physical death isn't even real according to
> early Buddhism; it is a concept based on the artificial construct of a
> "being" who is "born".
>
> (And in this comment :) New birth is related to old birth, but nothing
> is ever reborn.
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