coimetro-, coimetr-; koimetro-, koimetr- +

1. An area set apart for or containing graves, tombs, or funeral urns; especially, one that is not a churchyard; a burial ground; a graveyard.
2. Etymology: from Old French cimetiere, "graveyard" from Late Latin coemeterium, from Greek koimeterion, "sleeping place, dormitory"; from koiman, "to put to sleep", keimai, "I lie down". Early Christian writers were the first to use it for "burial ground".

Normally, the most common "final resting place" throughout the world is burial in a cemetery.

1. An abnormal attraction to and desire to visit cemeteries.
2. A compulsion to examine the various graves and other burial aspects of cemeteries.
3. In some situations in psychiatry, someone who has a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries.

1. A special fondness and interest in cemeteries or graveyards; especially, in collecting epitaphs that are written on the tombstones.
2. A fascination with seeing gravestones and sarcophagi (plural of sarcophagus).

Sarcophagi, subjects of coimetrophiliac interest

Sarcophagus, our term for a stone coffin, or "burial place", located above ground and often decorated, has a macabre origin befitting a macabre subject. The word comes to us from Latin and Greek, having been derived in Greek from sarx, "flesh", and phagein, "to eat".

The Greek word sarkophagos meant "eating flesh", and in the phrase lithos, "stone"; sarkophagos it denoted a limestone that was thought to decompose the flesh of corpses placed in it.

Used by itself as a noun, the Greek term came to mean "coffin". The term was carried over into Latin, where sarcophagus was used in the phrase lapis sarcophagus, referring to the same stone as in Greek.

Sarcophagus, used as a noun in Latin meant "coffin of any material". This Latin word was adopted into English, first being recorded in 1601 with reference to the flesh-consuming stone and then in 1705 with reference to a stone coffin.

Epitaph collections

Sum quod eris, fui quod sis. "I am what you will be; I was what you are."

A message engraved on tombstones as a reminder to the living as in the following poem:

A response was written on a wooden sign next to the grave stone:

1. Someone who likes to visit cemeteries to see the various tombstones, sarcophagi, etc.
2. Anyone who has a special fondness or attraction to cemeteries where he or she may see the various graves, tombstones, sarcophagi, and related items.

An excessive, or abnormal, fear of cemeteries.

Those who fear cemeteries usually are also afraid of going to funerals, looking at tombstones or dead bodies, and just hearing about funerals.

Some people will drive long distances out of their way to avoid going by a cemetery or walk on the other side of the street to avoid being close to one.

1. A state of deep, often prolonged unconsciousness, usually the result of injury, disease, or poison, in which an individual is incapable of sensing or responding to external stimuli and internal needs.
2. An abnormal deep stupor occurring as a result of illness or injury in which the patient cannot be aroused by external stimuli.

More than 50% of cases are caused by trauma to the head or circulatory accidents in the brain due to hypertension, arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, tumor, abscess formation, or insufficient blood flow to the brain.

3. Etymology: from Greek koma; genitive form, komatos, "deep sleep, lethargy"; which is probably related to kamnein, "to toil, to be sick" or "to be worn out, to suffer". It may also be indirectly related to koimetr-, "sleeping".

Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a coma

In a coma.

Stedman's Medical Dictionary, 28th edition, warns readers to "avoid the illegitimate form, comatosed".