Dealing With Death Anxiety

The fear of death is one of the oldest fears of the human race, stemming largely from the fact that nobody is entirely sure what’s on the other side. On some instances, the fear of death becomes even worse when the person is suffering from a terminal illness and is inevitably aware that his time is almost up. This feeling, sometimes referred to as death anxiety is often accompanied by bouts of depression and experience a number of problems connected to their interpersonal relationships. This death anxiety can sometimes be a problem for the people around the dying, though some psychological side effects have also been observed.

For the most part, this problem is largely ignored in favor of either prolonging the patient’s life, or making their last days as comfortable and painless as possible. For most medical professionals, the physical aspect of death is far simpler to deal with than the emotional and psychological facets of it. However, fairly recently, more and more people are starting to pay attention to the problems posed by death anxiety and the measures that could be taken to help reduce the emotional pain of those involved. Inevitably, this includes...