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thanatology

scientific study of death
Intangible academic_discipline Q620462
thanatology
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thanatology

Summary

thanatology is an academic discipline[1]. thanatology draws 169 Wikipedia views per month (academic_discipline category, ranking #174 of 1,010).[2]

Key Facts

  • thanatology's instance of is recorded as academic discipline[3].
  • Thanatos is named after thanatology[4].
  • thanatology is a type of science[5].
  • thanatology is a type of applied psychology[6].
  • thanatology's Commons category is recorded as Thanatology[7].
  • thanatology's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Thanatology[8].
  • thanatology's facet of is recorded as death[9].
  • thanatology's practiced by is recorded as thanatologist[10].

Body

Definition and Type

thanatology's instance of is recorded as academic discipline[3]. Recorded subclass of include science[5] and applied psychology[6].

Origins

Thanatos is named after thanatology[4].

Why It Matters

thanatology draws 169 Wikipedia views per month (academic_discipline category, ranking #174 of 1,010).[2] thanatology has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] thanatology is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

Related Entities

applied psychology science

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Facet of → death
    Named after → Thanatos
    Instance of → —
    Subclass of → science, applied psychology
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|11 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 20657, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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