Compare the differences in perceptions of death between middle-aged adults and older adults. How do these differing perceptions affect death anxiety?
What will be an ideal response?
Middle-aged adults report more death anxiety than any other age group. This likely results from the loss of the sense of unique invulnerability as the elders of the family begin to die and the middle-aged adult moves into the elder positions in the family and corporate world. Older adults are not necessarily less preoccupied with death, but they talk about it less. Older people who have a sense of having served a higher purpose (ego integrity) are not as frightened by death as they were at mid-life.
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