The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric PsychiatryFemaleHumansAttitude to DeathDeathPalliative Care
Being With a Dying, Nonreligious Person.
George S Alexopoulos
Published: 202610.1016/j.jagp.2025.09.006
Abstract
Death is a unique and dramatic event. The desire to imagine life as endless may be hard-wired, preserved through evolution because it promotes behaviors that protect the organism. Beliefs in an afterlife may be an extension of our theory-of-mind ment…
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