Very few news outlets these days cover anything besides the COVID-19 pandemic. A quick perusal of social and mainstream media will reveal America’s newfound obsession. But why are we so single-mindedly focused on Coronavirus? Surely other things are happening in the world. When all is said and done, chalk it all up to an underlying fear of death. People fear pandemics and plagues because they fear death.
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Fear of Death
A new Amy Adams movie centers around the common yet somewhat irrational fear of entering open or crowded spaces or even simply leaving the house, agoraphobia. But thousands of people suffer from a lesser known but equally alarming phobia, the fear of death, AKA Thanatophobia. While many, if not most, people are afraid to die, people who suffer from Thanatophobia take that fear to an entirely different level, fearing death or the actual process of dying to the point of the phobia negatively impacting their daily lives. Continue reading Fear of Death