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thanatism|ˈθænətɪz(ə)m|
[f. Gr. θάνατος death + -ism.]
The belief or doctrine that at death the human soul ceases to exist. So ˈthanatist, a believer in thanatism.
1900Academy 1 Dec. 512/1 For ourselves we prefer to say that even atheism and thanatism are speculations. 1902J. McCabe tr. Haeckel's Riddle Universe xi. 67/1 We give the name of ‘thanatism’..to the opinion which holds that at a man's death..his ‘soul’ also disappears,—that is, that sum of cerebral functions which psychic dualism regards as a peculiar entity, independent of the other vital processes in the living body. Ibid. 69/1. 1902 W. S. Lilly in 19th Cent. Mar. 466, I suppose that thanatists, as it is the fashion to call them, are really not very numerous. |