thanatology

IPA: θænʌtˈɔɫʌdʒi

The scientific study of death and the practices associated with it, including the study of the needs of the terminally ill and their families.

Examples of "thanatology" in Sentences

The rest of the books were too clinical, written by some PhD in psychology or some “expert” in thanatology.
Using personal experience or anecdote instead of research to guide treatment has been a big problem with applied thanatology all along.
'thanatology', haven't see that word used since Heinlein died, which is what will happen to all of us if we don't get it together folks!
In addition to holding yearly conferences, ADEC is also in the business of minting grief specialists with a certificate in thanatology, or awarding them a CT.
She founded the palliative medical field of music -- thanatology and the Chalice of Repose Project, which trains teachers in palliative music vigils with the dying.
If they really want to know the reason why, says Edwin Shneidman, professor emeritus of thanatology at the University of California, Los Angeles, they will have to perform what he calls a "psychological autopsy" -- a search, not for an underlying illness, but for the triggering events that opened Foster's despair like a trapdoor.