Palliative care emergencies are emergencies in patients with an incurable disease that may lead to death or decreased quality of life. During the palliative care phase of a patient's life, they differ from other medical emergencies and are mainly focusing on symptom control, whereas disease-oriented treatments are less important. Palliative care emergencies can occur on the physical, emotional,...

Bo Burnham is a critically acclaimed American stand-up comedian and filmmaker. The usual themes in his works are the hypocrisy of artists, commercialisation art, role social media erasing boundary between public private. However, during pandemic, he chose to focus on theme anxiety, minor earlier works. Anxiety has been considered an integral part modernity as discussed by Anthony Giddens Zygmun...

As terrorism continues to raise the specter of death to levels of salience best measured on a global scale, terror management theory (TMT) offers valuable insights for communication theorists regarding the nature and psychology of terrorism. TMT provides a metatheoretic framework, which can help to unify a diverse range of communication theory perspectives. Following a review of TMT’s analysis ...

Doubtless, the COVID-19 pandemic has been extremely challenging in all aspects. However, rather than looking at exclusively as a catastrophic event, which generated insecurity, anxiety, panic and helplessness, I suggest investigating this insecurity anxiety through prism of existential philosophy. Drawing, particular, on work Søren Kierkegaard literature existentialist international relations, ...

Abstract The climate crisis is an unprecedented existential threat that causes disturbing emotions, such as anxiety. Recently, Clayton and Karazsia measured anxiety “a more clinically significant ‘anxious’ response to change” (2020, p. 9). To gain a nuanced understanding of the phenomenon from empirical psychological perspective, we translated core Climate Anxiety Scale into German assessed pot...