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Death Anxiety: Fear, Meaning & the Human Condition
Death anxiety in philosophy: Yalom on the fear of death in everyday life, Heidegger on being-toward-death, and how existentialism understands the anxiety that mortality produces.
Death anxiety is the fear of death in its many forms — the explicit terror, the vague unease, and the disguised restlessness that Yalom and Heidegger traced to our mortality. The philosophy of death anxiety asks what this fear is, whether it is rational, and how it can be faced.
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Irvin D. Yalom
Irvin D. Yalom is an American existential psychotherapist and author who brought the givens of death, freedom, isolation, and meaninglessness into clinical practice.
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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher whose Being and Time reoriented phenomenology toward the question of Being, finitude, and authentic existence in the face of death.
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