thanatomania

English

Etymology

thanato- +‎ -mania

Noun

thanatomania (uncountable)

1. The morbid belief that one is fated to die, having been cursed or bewitched by an enemy.
   • 1971, Erwin Heinz Ackerknecht, Hans Huldrych Walser, Huldrych M. Koelbing, Medicine and ethnology: selected essays:

     Suicide may also sometimes be effectuated by the mechanism of thanatomania.

Translations

belief that one is fated to die, having been cursed

• Portuguese: tanatomania f