Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
2 days agoWorking with Fears of Death
Thinking about death is a normal part of being human, and confronting these fears can help us move forward in life.
About a year into his job as an interfaith chaplain at Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Fla., J.S. Park began to have what he calls "really awful death anxiety." "I saw all the ways people could be injured, especially working at a trauma center," he says. When he was around his wife and kids, he'd think, "this could be the last time that I get to hear their laughter and see their faces like this," he says.