thanatology
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- n the branch of science that studies death (especially its social and psychological aspects)
- Connoisseurs savor genuine follies like those of the new priests of thanatology, who describe dying as terminal living," or the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare who .
- From thanatology to sances and sexHer surprise bestseller of 1969, On Death and Dying, made her well known.
- Sir: You vividly illustrated that a thanatology without theology inevitably leads to an anthropology without eschatology.