title: [Fear of death: fear of life?].
abstract: This paper analyzes death as it is perceived and experienced in psychotherapeutic contexts: as a future possibility, as a loss of loved persons and as the near end as it happens with terminal patients. After a distinction between biological and psychological death, the hermeneutics of Heidegger, Sartre, Feifel and Krishnamurti are discussed. It is then suggested that death becomes more actual as a threat the less the individual profits from his existential possibilities.
mesh_terms: D001293:Attitude to Death; D005239:Fear; D006801:Humans; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory
vernacular_title: Medo da morte: medo da vida?