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What is a thanatocracy?

What is a thanatocracy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Nominal governance by a dead person, through posthumous holding of an official position of authority, or by popular veneration and lasting influence of a personal ideology; necrocracy.
  2. The carrying out of mass and organized killing as an official policy of a state.
  3. The enactment of policies held to lead, directly or indirectly, to death or an increased risk of death.
  4. A culture in which rituals relating to the dead play a unique or important role.
  5. (figuratively) Endemic stagnation or decay.
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