death fear
Dread of dying
Death fear is anxiety or dread about dying or mortality.
The term appears in psychological and philosophical contexts discussing how awareness of death shapes human behavior: His death fear intensified after the diagnosis.
Some traditions distinguish fear of the dying process from fear of nonexistence itself.
- mortalityState of eventual death
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- terrorExtreme, overwhelming fear
- phobiaPersistent irrational dread
- graveSerious and worrying
finality · final breath · anxiety · cold sweat · morbid · dark thoughts · darkness · reaper · funeral · coffin · existential · panic · thanatophobia · doom · afterlife · unknown · haunting · inevitable
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