death acceptance
Embracing life's end
Death acceptance is the psychological state of coming to terms with one's own mortality or the death of others.
It implies neither welcoming death nor denying it, but acknowledging it as an inevitable part of life: After her diagnosis, she worked toward death acceptance rather than fighting the reality.
The concept appears frequently in end-of-life care, grief counseling, and existential philosophy.
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
- peaceFreedom from disturbance
- mortalityState of eventual death
- letting goReleasing one's grasp
- hospiceTerminal illness comfort program
closure · surrender · terminal · finitude · serenity · farewell · final goodbye · release · transition · dignity · palliative · reconciliation · legacy · end-of-life · last rites · tranquility · last breath · deathbed
- mortalitydeceased, mortality, mortality rates, dying, dead
- Bushidobushido, samurai code, warrior code, honor code, samurai ethics
- EpicureanismEpicurus, ataraxia, pleasure, Lucretius, tranquility
- griefgrief, mourning, bereavement, sorrow, grieving
- ancient philosophyPlato, Aristotle, Socrates, Platonism, Epicureanism
- ZhuangziTao, qi
death acceptancedeath denial
Refusing to accept dying
death anxiety · thanatophobia · fear of death · denial · death fear
death, acceptance, deathly, deaths, accept, accepts, accepted, accepting, acceptable