thanatography

plural thanatographies

1. An account, usually written, of the death of a person.

   I am tempted to assert that all writing falls somewhere between "oneirography" (a writing out of dreams) and "thanatography" (a writing out of deaths).

   1991, University of Auckland, Instituto Vox, Antipodas, numbers 3-4, University of Auckland, →ISBN, page 55

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   I am tempted to assert that all writing falls somewhere between "oneirography" (a writing out of dreams) and "thanatography" (a writing out of deaths).

   1991, Roy Boland, Sally Harvey, Magical Realism and Beyond: The Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Novel, number 3, Vox/AHS, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 55