thanatophobia

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Alan: This is a brave and important blog and almost perfectly sums up my own thanatophobia, which pretty much ...

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  • Alan: This is a brave and important blog and almost perfectly sums up my own thanatophobia, which pretty much ... —  ThePickards
  • The Illness Attitude Scales (IAS) were developed by Robert Kellner as a clinimetric index for measuring hypochondriacal fears and beliefs (worry about illness, concerns about pain, health habits, hypochondriacal beliefs, thanatophobia, disease phobia, bodily preoccupations, treatment experience and effects of symptoms). —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • Necrophobia and thanatophobia are allied maladies, one being the fear of dead bodies and the other the fear of death itself. —  Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
 

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  1. New Latin, from Greek θάνατοσ death, + -φαβια, from φοβεἴν, fear.
 

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