death denial
Refusing mortality's reality
Death denial is the psychological tendency to avoid confronting or acknowledging one's own mortality.
The concept appears in existential philosophy and terror management theory, where it's seen as a fundamental human defense mechanism.
Death denial can be individual—refusing to think about dying—or cultural, expressed through beliefs in afterlife, legacy, or symbolic immortality.
His workaholism was just death denial in disguise.
- avoidanceDeliberate keeping away
- immortalityExemption from death
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
- fear of dyingDread of mortality
- fearEmotional response to threat
mortality · bargaining · afterlife · euphemism · passed away · gone to sleep · numbness · disbelief · coping · terror · repression · illusion · heaven · delusion · shock · stages · loss · finality
- mortalitydeceased, mortality, mortality rates, dying, demise
- griefgrief, mourning, bereavement, sorrow, grieving
- denialismdenialism, anti-science, pseudoscience, anti-vax, flat earth
death, denial, deaths, dead, deadly, deathly, deadliness, deny, denied