Talk:misthanasia

RFV discussion: November–December 2018
A bunch of mentiony stuff in Google Scholar, all in translation. DTLHS (talk) 20:00, 30 November 2018 (UTC)


 * My bioethics professor in Brazil mentioned this word, by surprise I could not find the word in most internet dictionaries. It seems that Brazilian Bioethicist are promoting this neologism. I ended up doing my first activity in Wikitionary about this. It's just a stub and I did it in the run. --Arthurfragoso (talk) 21:37, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

cited Kiwima (talk) 20:12, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Great job! Before I read the definition, I thought it meant a hatred of death. Khemehekis (talk) 00:02, 4 December 2018 (UTC)


 * I have to add that I'm unsure about the etymology. I did some research and I found that it was first coined by Márcio Fabri dos Anjos in 1989 in his essay "Eutanásia em chave de libertação".

''A mistanásia nos fazer lembrar os que morrem de fome, cujo número apontado por estatísticas é de estarrecer. Faz lembrar, de modo geral, a morte do empobrecido, amargado pelo abandono e pela falta de recursos os mais primários. Mas também nos remete aos mortos nas torturas de regimes políticos fortes e que os deixam por fim como “desaparecidos”. Nesses casos, a mistanásia (do grego mis = infeliz (unhappy) é uma verdadeira “mustanásia”, morte de rato de esgoto (do grego mys = rato (rat)).''
 * Last line translation:

In these cases, a misthanasia (from greek mis = unhappy) is a truly "musthanasia", death of sewer rats (from greek mys = μυς = rat).
 * I could not find a greek word similar to mis that means unhappy, maybe someone who knows greek could help us, when I created the article I just guessed that it was from the english prefix mis- and I put a word that would somewhat fit: "unfortunately"
 * I tried to find the original essay to see if it had been written in the greek alphabet, but I can't find it online.
 * If there is no "mis-" = unhappy, I would think it came from μυς=rat.
 * There is also two people who currently write about this term, Leo Pessini and Luiz Antonio Lopes Ricci, I could try to contact them to get some clarification.
 * — Arthurfragoso (talk) 17:41, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
 * There is no Classical Greek word or root mis meaning unhappy, only meaning "hatred of", which can be shortened to, as in  – but only before a vowel. For unhappy in the sense of , , a possible prefix of impeccable Greek pedigree is .  --Lambiam 18:42, 4 December 2018 (UTC)


 * RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 20:50, 11 December 2018 (UTC)