deathismとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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deathism (uncountable)

1. The belief that death is natural, inevitable, or desirable.
   • 1999, Bart Kosko, The Fuzzy Future: From Society and Science to Heaven in a Chip (page 247)

     Religions may be the purest offspring of deathism. Most religions promise rewards in heaven or punishments in hell […]

   • 2010, Robert J. Pellegrini, Identities for Life and Death (page 248)

     There is no joy of any kind in what I describe as the deathism paradigm they follow, other than whatever feelings of effectiveness may be derived from killing the infidel and in fulfilling the personal death wish of religious martyrdom.