Why this word is great
THANATOMANIA — [Noun] The morbid belief that one is fated to die, having been cursed or bewitched by an enemy. From the Greek thanato- ("death") + -mania ("madness, obsession"). Unlike "hypochondria" (which fixates on illness without the supernatural) or "suicidal ideation" (which stems from self-directed despair), thanatomania is the conviction that death has been woven into one's fate by unseen hands. It is the weight of a whispered hex settling like a stone in the stomach, the certainty that the raven perched on your fence is not a bird but an omen, or the slow wasting of a man who stops eating because he has seen his own face in a witch’s mirror. To believe in such a fate is to live in a world where every shadow has intent, and some curses work because we believe them into being.