deathiversary

Definitions

The anniversary of someone's death.

informal

Examples

“If all the world's a stage⟳, Shakespeare seems to be rarely off it these days, to the extent that some may be less tempted to celebrate⟳ his deathiversary than to say⟳, "Him again, still?"”

“In the midst of TV's full brunt of Diana deathiversary specials, Showtime has decided that what one naturally wants instead is a dispassionate, depressing documentary about the downward spiral and untimely death of pop superstar Whitney Houston, who drowned in a hotel bathtub in 2012 (official cause: coronary artery disease, complicated by drug use⟳), leaving many unanswerable questions: Who was she? What was her legacy? Where did it all go so wrong?”

“Soon, he was only asked to offer⟳ remembrances on the successive unhappy deathiversaries of that film director/painter he referred to as The Living Dead Man […]”

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