Death Anxiety

Death Anxiety

Death anxiety may refer to:

Psychology

  • Death anxiety (psychology)
  • Terror management theory, a psychological theory that says humans are so motivated to deal with their fear of dying that it can affect their beliefs and behaviours
  • Necrophobia, an abnormal fear of dead things, or the related condition of Thanatophobia (obsession with one's own mortality)

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