deathism
nounEtymology From death + -ism.
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Human sciences, Philosophy, Sciences The belief that death is natural, inevitable, or desirable.
- Religions may be the purest offspring of deathism. Most religions promise rewards in heaven or punishments in hell […]1999, Bart Kosko, The Fuzzy Future: From Society and Science to Heaven in a Chip, page 247:
- 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.2010, Robert J. Pellegrini, Identities for Life and Death, page 248:
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- For this growing set, the idea that we might have a fixed, natural lifespan is pure defeatism—“deathism” even, a spell from which we must awaken to realise our full potential.2025 October 25, Stephen Cave, “Threescore and many more”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9: