thanatography

From thanato- +‎ -graphy.

thanatography (plural thanatographies)

1. An account, usually written, of the death of a person.
   • 1991, University of Auckland, Instituto Vox, Antipodas‎^[1], numbers 3-4, University of Auckland, →ISBN, page 55:

     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^[2], number 3, Vox/AHS, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 55:

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