Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thinking about death doesn’t make you morbid—it makes you aware. But when that awareness tips into obsession, anxiety, or dread, ...

Death anxiety, in some cases, is a morbid dread of death. Not merely dread of the physical and emotional suffering that can accompany dying, but a profound dread of the presumed nothingness that comes ...

Fear of death is universal, but not something that comports well with the secularized societies of the West. This fear and the hope that Christians have in Christ was discussed by Clarke Scheibe, ...

Emergency nurses are highly susceptible to death anxiety and employers must recognise this and put support in place to improve the health of their staff and patient care. Writing in Emergency Nurse, ...

Our culture encourages denial about death. While we don’t talk about it, death anxiety is a pervasive theme of being human, shaping much of what we think and do. Coming to terms with our mortality can ...

Texas A&M University researchers have found that a brief virtual reality (VR) simulation of a near-death experience can sharply reduce people’s anxiety about death. In a small pilot study of about 60 ...

Understanding mortality represents one of humanity’s most fundamental psychological challenges, yet developing healthy acceptance of death’s inevitability can profoundly enhance how we experience life ...

What does our reaction to the sudden demise of prominent public figures such as Prince and so many other celebrities in recent years say, if anything, about our collective attitude toward death?

Humans have two selves. One is the physical self, consisting of mortal and decaying elements. The other is the symbolic self, consisting of identity and meaning. Among all species, humans have the ...