Why this word is great
NECROSECURITY — [Noun] A state of security or social order achieved through the mass killing or systemic neglect of marginalized or racialized groups, often via preventable disease, deprivation, or state-sanctioned violence. From necro- (from Ancient Greek νεκρός (nekrós, "dead")) + security (from Latin securitas, "freedom from care"). Coined by Brenda Gisela Garcia Flores circa 2021. Unlike "biosecurity" (which aims to protect populations from biological threats) or "thanatopolitics" (which theorizes power through death’s governance), necrosecurity is the quiet arithmetic of expendability—the cold calculation that some must die so others may live undisturbed. It is the unchecked spread of cholera in a refugee camp, the rationing of ventilators along racial lines, the unmarked graves at the border—a grim equilibrium where security is not the absence of death, but its strategic distribution. The word tastes of iron and resignation.