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(n.)
The inquest and potential judgment awaiting anyone who dies of something now considered fixable.
Even at the funeral, his relatives conducted a whispered faultopsy centered on all the health alerts he’d dismissed.
Does it ring true?
From the future, or already here?
Fault + autopsy. From the Greek autopsia, meaning “seeing for oneself.” An autopsy looks for a cause; a faultopsy, for a culprit. Behind it is longevity culture’s premise that decline is a project you could have managed, so what today we call “natural causes” may one day be judged as negligence.
Future Words: A Non-Obvious Glossary of Terms That Don’t Exist (But Soon Will) collects all 100, each with its example sentence and coinage notes, from the bestselling authors of The Future Normal. Hardcover, October 20, 2026.