Everyone must at some point see death as part of life. Therefore accepting one's death, one's mortality, is something everyone must face sometime during his or her lifetime. Perhaps the most widely held attitude toward death is fear. The importance of death anxiety research rests on the premise that all humans will eventually die. The subject of death anxiety and how it is managed by the individual is worthy of serious scientific investigation.
Death is defined as a state of non-being, the termination of biological and social life.
Death anxiety can possess several dimensions such as fear of death of self, fear of dying of self, fear of death of others, and fear of dying of others. The dimension of death anxiety most often examined is the fear of one's own death, which examines the fear of not being here, ceasing to exist, dying too young. This dimension of death anxiety will be examined in this thesis. He found that researchers have used a wide variety of means to study death anxiety. Researchers have used age, gender, and religiosity as variables in looking at differences in death anxiety.