Death Anxiety: Neurobiology, Cognitive Appraisal, and Evidence-Based Assessment of Fear of Dying
Death anxiety refers to distress, worry, or fear specifically associated with one’s mortality and the prospect of dying. Although transient thoughts about death are common across the lifespan, death anxiety becomes clinically relevant when it is persistent, disproportionate, functionally impairing, and accompanied by bodily arousal and maladaptive cognitions. Conceptually, it overlaps with existential anxiety, health… Read More »