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Death Anxiety
• Fear of death and dying
• Fear of own death + process of death
• Several reasons for this
1. Fear of physical suffering
• Fear of terminal issues such as cancer is prominent
• Overwhelmed by the pain
2. Fear of isolation and loneliness
• Don’t know how to react to death
• Older people feel they will be avoided
3. Fear of non-being
• Humans aware that they will eventually die
• This knowledge of ultimate non-being leads to intense anxiety
4. Fear of cowardice and humiliation
• Fear becoming a coward in the face of death
• Fear of fear develops
5. Fear of falling to achieve important goals
• Some people define life by accomplishments
6. Fear of the effect of death on those who outlive you
• Fear of financial/psychological effect that death has on their loved ones
7. Fear of punishment or of the unknown
• Some religions preach that sinners are doomed after death and this evokes
intense fear of death
8. Fear of death of others
• Afraid of losing a loved one
• Some individuals develop thanatophobia: abnormal or excessive fear of
death and dying that consumes someone’s thoughts
• Makes social engagement difficult
• fear changes with age (die before dreams)
age •fear centres around family
•women higher levels of anxiety
gender •women in general do have higher + difference emtoional expriences
•religion alleviates death anxiety
religion •existence of afterlife
• certain personality impacts fear of death
Personality •link between axniety and purpose
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