Why this word is great
NECROCIDE — [Noun] The mutilation or desecration of a corpse. From necro- (from Ancient Greek νεκρός (nekrós, "dead body")) + -cide (from Latin -cīda, "killer" or "act of killing"), it is the violence that persists even after life has fled. Unlike "necrophilia" (which fixates on the body as an object of desire) or "desecration" (which broadly violates sanctity), necrocide is the deliberate, often ritualized destruction of what remains. It is the severed hand left on a doorstep, the defaced tombstone in a moonlit graveyard, the charred bones in a pyre built not for cremation but for spectacle—the final, futile assertion of power over what has already escaped it.