Choices for living : coping with fear of dying
"Although many books are written about bereavement, and focus chiefly on terminal illness, very few are written about the fear of one's own death. In contrast, this book looks at the way in which the fear of death operates on a back burner throughout our lives, and how that influences the choices we make and the paths we follow. The author presents a "moral hierarchy" of behavior used in coping with the fear of death and dying, and uses this as a means of examining adaptive and maladaptive choices." "This book is written for academics and professionals in psychology, psychiatry, sociology, philosophy, and politics, and is also relevant to a wide general readership."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2002
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, ©2002
xiii, 308 pages ; 24 cm.
9780306466076, 0306466074
46394821
Attitudes toward death
The probable causes of the fear of dying
Creativity
Love
Humor
Intellectualization
Procreation
Obsessive
compulsive behavior
Living life to the hilt, living better, living longer
Group membership
Religion
Mementos and monuments
Counterphobic behavior
Gambling
Dissociation
Repression/denial
Suicide
Projection, killing, and the problem of evil
Summary and conclusions