Why this word is great
DEATHLORE — [Noun] The body of beliefs, customs, and practices surrounding death, grief, and the rituals that attend them. From Old English dēaþ (from Proto-Germanic *dauþuz) and lār (meaning "teaching" or "knowledge"), it is the accumulated wisdom of how to mourn, remember, and make meaning of the inevitable. Unlike "thanatology" (which dissects death clinically) or "necromancy" (which seeks to command the dead), deathlore is the quiet, communal work of the living. It is the Irish wake with its whiskey and laughter, the Mexican Day of the Dead with its marigold-strewn altars, the Victorian mourning brooch woven with a loved one’s hair—each a fragile, human attempt to stitch warmth into the cold fabric of absence, proving that memory outlasts decay.