deathism
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]deathism (uncountable)
- The belief that death is natural, inevitable, or desirable.
- 1999, Bart Kosko, The Fuzzy Future: From Society and Science to Heaven in a Chip, page 247:
- Religions may be the purest offspring of deathism. Most religions promise rewards in heaven or punishments in hell […]
- 2010, Robert J. Pellegrini, Identities for Life and Death, page 248:
- There is no joy of any kind in what I describe as the deathism paradigm they follow, other than whatever feelings of effectiveness may be derived from killing the infidel and in fulfilling the personal death wish of religious martyrdom.