thanatopsis \than-uh-TOP-sis\ , noun;
1. A view or contemplation of death.
2. A poem (1817) by William Cullen Bryant.
I don't contemplate death nearly as much as I do dying.
October 31, 2011
thanatopsis
I don't contemplate death nearly as much as I do dying.
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Θάνατος Thánatos
just remembering my Greek ,a general word for dead ,death .
Just went to Dictionary.com to check the origin of the word, but the site was down. It sounds sort of Greek, doesn't it?
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