Michael Sobocinski Death Anxiety Is Not About Death There's a counterintuitive truth buried in existential psychology: when we say someone suffers from death anxiety, we're often naming the wrong problem. The anxiety isn't primarily about dying. It's about what mortality reveals—and what we fear we lack when we face it. This distinction matters because if we misname the problem, we miss the solution. For decades, therapists assumed death anxiety worked like other fears: if you think about death too much, you get anxious. The fix seemed obviou
