A [Garbage Collection] technique for Object Oriented programming in TCL. Most (if not all) TCL object systems do not contain a native garbage collection process. Many large applications create a large number of temporary objects. Keeping them in memory leads to needless consumption of resources. Constantly re-spawning them can lead to significant performance penalties in some object systems.

Thanatos was developed by [SDW] for use in his [Odie] system.

Thanatos has 3 parts
* An allocation manager
* An "angel of death" process
* A standard method in each object to handle "The touch of death"