ABSTRACT
This chapter offers insights into how the dead bodies of precarious consumers become weapons of violence against themselves. It examines deaths due to encephalitis and the event of oxygen supply shortage at Baba Raghav Das Medical College Hospital, Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh, India) that killed 60 patients to understand the ongoing structural violence against the precarious. It uncovers the thanatopolitics of neoliberal capitalism that conceals structural violence and furthers profiteering. This chapter adds to existing understanding of precarity by foregrounding thanatopolitics that mobilizes precariousness to further injure the precariat.
