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====Death Anxiety describes the abnormal feelings of dread some humans have about their mortality. This anxiety usually arises from stressors in a person's life created by the passing of a loved one, lack of self confidence, or stress in life.====

Everyone has a loved one in life and the death of that person is devastating for some members of the family more than others. For those that get death anxiety from the loss, the anxiety is cause by the shocking realization of human mortality. Before long the only thing they can think about is their impending doom. A second factor that is a leading causes of death anxiety is the lack of self confidence. A person is burdened by beliefs that they are worthless and lacks confidence to carry on their everyday lives. This unusual occurrence is caused by the person's own lack of a significant goal in life. People with death anxiety by this issue is usually mislead by themselves into thinking that they are worthless since they have not accomplished something important to them in life.

A third factor that causes death anxiety is stress. Extreme stress is a simple igniter of death anxiety for any person whether it is overworking or PTSD. Humans can only handle certain amounts of tension in life and when boundaries are exceeded then it leads to us begging for death in order to end the pain generated from stress.

Ways to reduce Death Anxiety
While there is pressure of wanting death created by death anxiety, there are also ways of relieving the stress. The best way to alleviate stress caused by the death of a significant other is through accepting death. People with death anxiety deny the death of their loved ones which causes them to become scared of their own deaths. The only way to lower that form of death anxiety is to accept death over time.

Death anxiety caused by a lack of self confidence can only be relieved through the balancing of life factors. This involves raising self esteem,overall well being, and sense of oneself. This can be accomplished by setting goals to aim for which allows a person to better fine tune their lives to they way they want to go about life, which in turn makes them less stressed.

The most common cause of death anxiety is stress and it can be reduced through simple means. Exercise is a simple way to relieve stress which can greatly reduce stress levels. The other simple way is to have positive emotions surrounding you because that is the best way to get rid of dreadful emotions.

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