title: [Attitude toward and experience of finiteness of human life].
abstract: Consciousness of the finitude of human life is found to occur in childhood as well as in age and adulthood, but is turning up more intensively in subjects being terminally ill, and is aroused -- as an irritation to be repressed -- in persons who regularly contact patients confronted by death. Thinking of the end is embedded in a complexity of psychosocial correlates: this is shown to be true for two subgroups of the Bonn Longitudinal Study of Aging, who are discriminated by their contrasting manner of facing finitude.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged / Q000523:psychology*; D001293:Attitude to Death; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans
vernacular_title: Einstellung und Erleben der Endlichkeit des Daseins.