razi & mowlavi have both explained the fearing of death; although in different ways. razi looks death, in any way and for anybody, as a disease and a fictitious phenomenon; so, as physician tries to treat it rationally. neglecting the imagination of death is the best way to get out of fearing pressures; because thinking to death can unconsciously bring a great deal of fear. but mowlavi (rumi) e...

Previously overlooked factors in elders' depressive symptomatology were examined, including death fear, sibling death, and sibling closeness. Participants were 150 elders (61 men, 89 women) aged 65-97 years with at least one sibling. Measures were proportion of deceased siblings, sibling closeness, the Death Fear Subscale of the Death Attitude Profile-Revised, and the Center for Epidemiological...

OBJECTIVE to compare the level of fear of death in nursing students and professionals. METHOD this was a comparative-transversal study examining 643 nursing students and professionals from a third-level institution. A random sampling method was employed, and the sample size was calculated by power analysis. The study was developed during three stages: the first stage consisted of the applicat...

The present study aimed to explore the psychometric properties of the Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety (ASDA) in an Iranian middle-aged sample. A sample of 55 volunteer Iranian persons took part in the study. Cronbach's alpha of the ASDA was found to be high (0.91) and Spearman-Brown and Guttman Split-Half coefficients were 0.86. The factor analysis of the ASDA items yielded five factors accountin...

caring of a dying patient is more convenient than a patient who knows his/her prognosis. according to pataica mcgorr once the dying patient compliance with the death, care givers can help him/her to overcome on fear of death.   continues reports show that most of dying patients agrees to know the truth. glaser and strauss named different tricks which patents make to know the time of their death...