deathremain
Deathremain is a neologism used in discussions of mortality, memory, and media to describe the persistence of death-related content, imagery, or implications beyond the immediate event. The concept captures how mortality remains present in cultural artifacts, digital records, and personal cognition long after a death occurs or a lethal event ends. The term is not widely standardized and appears mainly in informal or theoretical discussions rather than as a formal scholarly definition.
It is unclear who coined the term, and usage varies. In some contexts it refers to the
In literary and film analysis, deathremain can be used to analyze motifs that reappear after a death,
Critics note that deathremain overlaps with established concepts such as death anxiety, haunting, memorialization, and collective
Related concepts include memento mori, death anxiety, memorialization, collective memory, and necropolitics.