Background and aims: <span style="color: #221e1f; font-family: Optima ...

Reminders of mortality influence human social cognition, but whether and how reminders of mortality affect brain activity underlying social cognition remains unclear. To test whether increasing mortality salience modulates neural responses to others' suffering, we scanned healthy adults who viewed video clips showing others in pain using functional magnetic resonance imaging. One group of parti...

I On the Fear of Death .................. II Attitudes Toward Death and Dying .................. III First Stage: Denial and Isolation .................. IV Second Stage: Anger .................. V Third Stage: Bargaining .................. VI Fourth Stage: Depression .................. VII Fifth Stage: Acceptance .................. VIII Hope .................. IX The Patient's Family ............

fear of crime is a very prevalent issue today. it challenges the safety of cities. for this reason it has gained considerable attention among the sociologists and criminologists over the last 20 years. whilst men experiencing relatively high rates of violence, they report their fear of crime less than women. in the contrary women have a much greater fear of crime than men, but are victimized le...

A considerable body of evidence derived from terror management theory indicates that the awareness of mortality represents a potent psychological threat engendering various forms of psychological defense. However, extant research has yet to examine the neurological correlates of cognitions about one's inevitable death. The present study thus investigated in 17 male participants patterns of neur...

In the Introduction to First Day of Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio depicts Black Death pandemic and also portrays devastating effects death on emotional states Florentines. Although plague doesn’t enter artistically ordered world Decameron’s storytellers, fear are still present in novellas. Therefore, a question may arise, how is it possible that novellas which were written bring comfort often sh...

Nurses are frequently exposed to dying patients and death in the course of their work. This experience makes individuals conscious of their own mortality, often giving rise to anxiety and unease. Nurses who have a strong anxiety about death may be less comfortable providing nursing care for patients at the end of their life. This paper explores the literature on death anxiety and nurses' attitu...

elegy is one of the most distinct manifestation of arabic and especially islamic poetry. since the time that human beigns have begun their life on the planet and the sorrowful destination of death has looked for them, and since the time that the fear of death has settled in their heart, they have been familiar with elegy and they have composed everlasting odes regarding it.using mournful and gl...

Objective. Studies in countries where assisted dying is legal show that bereaved people express concern over the potential for social disapproval and stigma because of manner death. There are indications voluntary judged as less acceptable if deceased younger. A vignette-based experiment was used to determine whether public (i.e., negative emotional reactions desired distance) expected grief sy...