HDE 100C Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Stoicism, Telling Stories, Hypoesthesia
2 Dec 2016
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Chapter 11: death and bereavement: death and bereavement, meaning of death, death as an organizer of time, an endpoint of life. Focus on time you have left: death as punishment. For being bad; children are likely to think this way: death as a transition. From life to afterlife: afterlife some sort of existence after death with some sort of consciousness, reincarnation life in another body, living again. Loss of ability to complete important projects, carryout plans. Loss of body: being able to experience good things, sensation (tastes, smell, touch) Loss of relationships: death anxiety, death anxiety fear of death a. People low in religiosity and high in religiosity have low death anxiety: those with moderate religiosity have high death anxiety, extrinsic religiosity focus on social purposes; arena for doing good deeds. Intrinsic religiosity live according to religious beliefs; seek meaning through religion. Personality traits and death anxiety: higher sense of purpose, lower levels of death anxiety.
