See necrophilous on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1992, Erich Fromm, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, page 408",
"text": "There are many factors, personal and cultural, that are responsible for this unevenness; in addition, some necrophilous traits may not be discovered in people who hide them successfully.",
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"Thriving on death or on dead things."
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