People With University Degree Fear Death Less

An anonymous reader writes "People with a university degree fear death less than those at a lower literacy level. In addition, fear of death is more common among women than men, which affects their children's perception of death."

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There's more than one "fear of death"

[dlenmn]

Fear of eventually dying and fear of dying young are quite different things, but both get named "fear of death". I read TFA, and it's not clear what fear they're talking about.

IMHO, it's silly to fear the former but good to have some fear of the latter.

Re:Odd.

[Nursie]

Maybe belief in the supernatural correlates well with fear of death.

Maybe if you're shit-scared of death all the time you find refuge in faith.

Me, I have a university degree and an IQ in the genius range (I don't think I'm a genius). Count me as someone that is educated, reasonably intelligent and scared of death. Isn't fear of death natural? I mean, I don't want to imagine a world without me, I won't be there. And that's leaving out the part in which you actually die, which isn't going to be any fun either.

Sign me up for immortality treatment please.

Reasoning?

[Renraku]

Death is inevitable. I don't fear taxes, and I don't fear death.

What I do fear, however, since I live in the United States where suicide and assisted suicide are illegal, is becoming almost completely nonfunctional due to sudden paralysis, stroke, etc. The fear is that if I were locked in and could only communicate one character an hour, they'd still keep me alive for as long as they could, even if I had to lay there awake but bored and paralyzed for 16 hours a day.

A distant second is dying a horrible slow death, perhaps by starvation.

Death itself, though, I don't really fear.

Re:Reasoning?

[hedwards]

Those laws have some serious flaws to them. I personally voted against the one in Washington because it seemed to be unnecessary for the stated purpose. We could have solved the same problem by granting doctors the ability to ignore normal dosing practices with the informed consent of the patient to prescribe the necessary dose to treat the pain with the understanding that as the dose rises the likelihood of death and addiction does as well. I don't think anybody on either side was particularly concerned with an individual with less than a year to live getting hooked on the junk.

It bothered me a great deal that the initiative passed on strength of sentimentalism and FUD where a lesser measure could have addressed the issue more appropriately. There was sparse evidence that the demand was for reasons other than depression and inadequate palliative care. And there was no requirement that the individual get declared as depression free from a psychiatrist or psychologist.

Re:Odd.

[oldhack]

Exactly the opposite.

If you believe in after life, you'd probably expect "they" will settle the score once you die, and who isn't a "sinner"?

Re:Odd.

[houghi]

I really like the story with the Devil and God throwing him out. And God being good and the Devil being bad.
Good versus Evil. Great storytelling.

But what if the Evil guy had won and then says He is the good guy? If I were the evil guy, I certainly would mess with peoples head and say that I was good, although I was evil. Say to two different persons that I am their only God and kill the other one and see who wins. Just because I can.
Let people die and the few who live must thank me for my mercy.

All the while the Devil who tries to come back, I will tell the worst stories about. And all the the Devil want to do is you to have fun.

Or is this just a matter that absolute power corrupts absolutely?

Anyway. Nice and entertaining stories. Lots of violence and sex, so great to turn into movies.

I'm wondering if part of it is depression

[NotSoHeavyD3]

I mean one of the symptoms of clinical depression is willingness to consider suicide. (Which I would think would mean that you feel death less.) Isn't depression more common among people with degrees? (Isn't it also more prevalent among those with higher IQ's as well?)