Human Growth and Development / Unit 17 HGD 2412 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Death Anxiety
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The idea
Death anxiety is concern about what awaits after death; a cross-cultural study compared Christians, Hindus and Tibetan Buddhist monks on views of the self and fear of death.
In practice
The monks, whose tradition teaches that there is no enduring self, reporting the greatest fear of self-annihilation.
Where people slip
Doctrine does not always predict feeling: believing in no self did not remove fear of losing it.
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