deathiversary

English

Etymology

Blend of death +‎ anniversary.

Noun

deathiversary (plural deathiversaries)

1. (informal) The anniversary of someone's death.
   • 2016 April 22, Jennifer Schuessler, “Shakespeare. Dead?”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-06-21:

     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?"

   • 2017 August 24, Hank Stuever, “’Whitney: Can I Be Me’ tries and fails to bring meaning to the late singer’s legacy”, in The Washington Post‎^[2], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 April 2024:

     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?

   • 2019 [2017], Rodrigo Fresán, translated by Will Vanderhyden, The Dreamed Part, Rochester, N.Y.: Open Letter, →ISBN, page 478:

     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 […]