fear of death
Dreading one's end
Fear of death is the dread or anxiety surrounding one's own mortality or the prospect of dying.
This universal human concern ranges from mild unease to paralyzing terror.
The clinical term is thanatophobia.
Fear of death underlies much religious belief, philosophical inquiry, and everyday denial: His fear of death kept him from flying.
She confronted her fear of death after the diagnosis.
- mortalityState of eventual death
- thanatophobiaDread of perishing
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- existential dreadTerror at meaningless being
- anxietyPersistent apprehensive distress
facing mortality · existential · finitude · dying · afterlife · oblivion · terror · morbid · inevitable · coffin · grave · darkness · void · panic · heartbeat · final moments · cold · eternal
- existential dreadexistential dread, existential angst, existential anxiety, existential crisis, dread
- mortalitydeceased, mortality, mortality rates, dying, demise
- fearsspiders, snakes, falling, heights, darkness
- EpicureanismEpicurus, ataraxia, pleasure, Lucretius, tranquility
- griefgrief, mourning, bereavement, sorrow, grieving
- feardread, afraid, fright, frightened, panic
fear, fears, feared, fearing, fearful, fearfully, fearfulness, fearless, fearlessly