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thanaˈtologist
[f. next + -ist.]
a. A student of or a person versed in thanatology; in quot. 1901 (nonce-use), one who studies dead animals.
1901E. Selous Bird Watching viii. 224 We have studied animals only to kill them, or killed them in order to study them. Our ‘zoologists’ have been thanatologists. 1972New Scientist 2 Mar. 497 Thanatologists ask doctors..to help the terminal patient and his family to meet his own death. 1975Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Oct. 1305/4 Their real subject, as is customary with Signor Manganelli, is death. He has always been proud of introducing himself as the supreme thanatologist. 1983Oxf. Bk. Death p. xiii, While to ‘deny’ death would sound as foolish as the lady who told Carlyle she had decided to accept the universe, I cannot say that I share the thanatologists' missionary urge to bring death out into the open.
b. An undertaker.
1972Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 1 Mar. 1/8 Quebec's 450 undertakers want to be called thanatologists. 1980Times 25 Apr. 6/4 He was one of 300 thanatologists, better known as undertakers, gathered in the principality [of Monaco] to discuss death in all its aspects. |