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thanatology noun In Greek mythology, Thanatos was the personification of death and the twin brother of Hypnos (Sleep). The ancient Greeks eventually came to use thanatos as a generic word for "death." Thanatology is a direct linguistic heir of the Greek term and was first documented in English in the mid-1800s. As a science, thanatology examines attitudes toward death, the meaning and behaviors of bereavement and grief, and other matters. In 1935, the word thanatos itself made its debut in English, ushered in with psychoanalytic theory to describe an unconscious tendency toward self-destruction. : the description or study of the phenomena of death and of psychological mechanisms for coping with them

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March 3, 2015 than-uh-TAH-luh-jee One of the seminal texts on thanatology is Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's On Death and Dying, which outlines the five stages of grief.   "In her eight-week yoga for grief course, Stang … uses her background in thanatology-the scientific study of death, dying and bereavement-to educate participants about death and normalize their experiences." - Anna Medaris Miller, U.S. News & World Report, January 7, 2015

Word	thanatology
Date	March 3, 2015
Type	noun
Syllables	than-uh-TAH-luh-jee
Etymology	In Greek mythology, Thanatos was the personification of death and the twin brother of Hypnos (Sleep). The ancient Greeks eventually came to use thanatos as a generic word for "death." Thanatology is a direct linguistic heir of the Greek term and was first documented in English in the mid-1800s. As a science, thanatology examines attitudes toward death, the meaning and behaviors of bereavement and grief, and other matters. In 1935, the word thanatos itself made its debut in English, ushered in with psychoanalytic theory to describe an unconscious tendency toward self-destruction.
Examples	One of the seminal texts on thanatology is Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's On Death and Dying, which outlines the five stages of grief. "In her eight-week yoga for grief course, Stang … uses her background in thanatology-the scientific study of death, dying and bereavement-to educate participants about death and normalize their experiences." - Anna Medaris Miller, U.S. News & World Report, January 7, 2015
Definition	: the description or study of the phenomena of death and of psychological mechanisms for coping with them

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