Death Anxiety

Anxiety is an emotion characterized by the fear, uneasiness and worry. In simple terms anxiety is body response to stressful, uneasiness, threat or nervousness before any event. People may suffer anxiety in different perspectives of their life. Some may have fear of future threat, nervousness, stage fright, or may be of imminent death which broadly be explain. It is an unpleasant normal occurring of physiological and psychological state. Some limits anxiety is necessary in one’s life, but when experience regularly may leads to various psychological problems.
Death is the termination of all biological functions that sustain an organism. There could be many reasons for this termination which could be disease, suicide, starvation, accidents and
His theory based on existential views and explained that death anxiety is a concern, real and the most profound source of anxiety. This anxiety is so intense that suffered ones start feeling phobias from everyday life such as the phobia of living in confined spaces.
According to this theory when individual become aware about the inevitability of ones death, he start suppressing his thoughts, fear of death anxiety. He becomes more strict and instinctive to their thoughts. This suppression leads to more exploration toward exterior beliefs. This could be cultural belief. There range is from simply think of death to severe or extreme phobias and threatening actions.

Being, time, and Dasein-Martin Heidegger, the German philosopher, on the one hand showed death as something conclusively determined, in the sense that it is inevitable for every human being, while on the other hand, it unmasks its indeterminate nature via the truth that one never knows when or how death is going to come. Heidegger does not engage in speculation about whether being after death is possible. He argues that all human existence is embedded in time: past, present, future, and when considering the future, we encounter the notion of death. This then creates angst. Angst can create a clear understanding in one that death is a possible mode of existence, which Heidegger described as “clearing”. Thus, angst can lead to
P. Wong's work on the meaning management theory indicates that human reactions to death are complex, multifaceted and dynamic. His “Death Attitude Profile” identifies three types of death acceptances as Neutral, Approach, and Escape acceptances. Apart from acceptances, his work also represents different aspects of the meaning of death fear that are rooted in the bases of death anxiety. The ten meanings he proposes are finality, uncertainty, annihilation, ultimate loss, life flow disruption, leaving the loved ones, pain and loneliness, prematurity and violence of death, failure of life work completion, judgment and retribution