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Choices for living : coping with fear of dying

Although many books are written about bereavement, very few are written about the fear of one's own death and most of these focus chiefly on terminal illness. In contrast, this book looks at the ways in which the fear of death operates on a back burner throughout our lives and how it influences the choices we make and the paths that we follow in life. The author presents a `moral hierarchy' of behavior used in coping with the fear of death and dying
eBook, English, ©2002
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, ©2002
1 online resource (xiii, 308 pages)
9780306474620, 9786610208241, 030647462X, 6610208247
51874458
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