INTRODUCTION Breaking bad news may be affected not only by insufficient knowledge of a physician, but also by his attitude, religious beliefs, fears, lack of experience, etc. This survey was aimed to test the relation between physicians' fear of own death and philosophy of life and their inclination to break bad news. MATERIAL AND METHODS One hundred seventy students of the last year of medic...

Thanatophobia is omnipresent in our lives. Research has shown separate but connected constructs: fear of death or fear of the dying process. The influences on death anxiety are varied including religiosity, gender, psychological state, and age. It is often assumed by the children of the elderly that the fear of death is prevalent in their parents. Daily the medical staff encounters the presence...

In a recent study Garfield (1975) found that psychedelic drug users, Zen meditators, and practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism expressed more accepting attitudes toward death than did graduate students in both psychology and religion; also, that Zen and Tibetan Buddhists were more accepting than the drug users. Garfield suggested that states of altered awareness, achieved through the use of drugs o...

This article explores the relationship between the perception of body and fear of death in hypochondriasis and panic disorder and discusses its treatment implications. The perception of danger originating from one’s body is directly related to the fear of body, perception of death, and fear of death in hypochondriasis and panic disorder, although there are some differences in this respect betwe...

Explaining what emotions or attitudes it is rational for humans to have toward our own deaths and their mortality has been a central task within most philosophical traditions. This article critically examines the rationality of five that might be taken death: fear, insofar as death can harm us by reducing overall level well-being; related attitude existential terror, feeling dismay uncanniness ...