HLTH102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mortality Salience, Terminal Illness, Bundesautobahn 94

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Health Studies
• Course: HLTH102
• Professor: Kelly Anthony

Document Summary

Mortality salience-death anxiety: fear that you are going to die; anxiety surrounding the notion of dying. Some people have different views of death: more spiritual and religious; its hard to know how it feels to die. We are all afraid of dying or unsettled at the thought. But it drives a lot of what we do. Researchers look at mortality salience as to why we fight in wars and risk our lives. We started dying as soon as we are born- we"re sort of programmed to eventually die. Globally we"re coming close together in terms of how we die; mostly chronic diseases as opposed to infectious diseases. Sudden death can be car accident, plant explosion or massive heart attack. We all want it but prolong it. ( 000) Terminal illness which is relatively quick but not as sudden- can be a year or two. Over 80 dying of terminal cancer is low about 1 in 10.