title: The awareness of mortality: continuing Kastenbaum's developmental legacy.
abstract: Kastenbaum's work had a strong developmental perspective. In fact, one of his first pieces explored the ways that adolescents experienced death. This article continues Kastenbaum's developmental perspective by considering the ways that a personal sense of mortality generally develops in adulthood as mid-life adults face the deaths of parents and peers as well as the inevitable signs of senescence.
authors.affiliation: The College of New Rochelle, New York and The Hospice Foundation of America.
authors.forename: Kenneth J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Doka
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D001293:Attitude to Death; D001364:Awareness; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016901:Intergenerational Relations; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012649:Self Concept; D012945:Social Values