Might mean (unverified): Rule by the dead or dying.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (thanatocracy)

noun:  Nominal governance by a dead person, through posthumous holding of an official position of authority, or by popular veneration and lasting influence of a personal ideology; necrocracy.
noun:  The carrying out of mass and organized killing as an official policy of a state.
noun:  The enactment of policies held to lead, directly or indirectly, to death or an increased risk of death.
noun:  A culture in which rituals relating to the dead play a unique or important role.
noun:  (figuratively) Endemic stagnation or decay.

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