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In “Fear of the Dead” Benjamin Beit Hallahmi discusses about the effects of corpse aversion among humans. He explores the idea of whether the effect of humans avoiding the dead is psychological or a natural response of the human body. In this article he brings up the only previous theory of avoiding the dead as the idea the human’s natural instincts is to avoid disease stated by P. Boyers. However, there are other factors such as the natural instinct of animals to avoid danger, ability sense the approach of danger, and comprehension of the occurrence of death by humans in which he explores.

This article helps me research the psychological and physiological effects of fear on humans when they face death. This article explores many different reasons why people avoid the dead which in turn explain why people fear death. Once I had read through the article, it indicated to me that the fear death is not just psychological, but also a physical response of humans.

HALLAHMI, BENJAMIN BEIT. "Fear of the Dead, Fear of Death: Is It Biological or Psychological?" //GSU Database //. University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, 1 Nov. 2012. Web. 15 June 2016.