Dr Hannah Gould
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first heard Jul 2026
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Most of the time when I'm talking about death, it's the parents that are worried.
And that's understandable.
But, you know, I do think there's much more of a role that we can do to help people normalize dying.
So I think, well, many people would say that everyone fears death, right?
Like every society, every culture.
I mean, some people would say that this is the kind of the central fear of humanity that motivates everything we do, right?
We all walk around just trying to not think about the fact we're going to die.
And so we get into relationships and buy houses and build careers and shop, you know, buy yourself little treats so you don't have to think about your dog dying and whatever it is.
And I think that that is, to a certain extent, true, and I don't think that's necessarily also harmful, right?
Like, you can't go around every single moment thinking you're gonna die, you can't contemplate it the whole time.
All of these kind of coping mechanisms we have to deal with our mortality can be perfectly fine.
But there is a small percentage of people who suffer from something called death anxiety.
And death anxiety is increasingly being recognized as a kind of psychological condition, recognized within the DSM, which is people who really struggle with thoughts of death and dying, struggle with contemplating it for themselves, for others, and has quite a negative pathological impact on their day-to-day.
you know, it stops them from consuming certain TB, or books, when they know somebody's gonna die.
Um, they really get concerned about things, often it manifests as health anxiety, right, so getting really concerned about signs and symptoms, or it can manifest as OCD.
Um, and so for those people who do encounter it, and I, they come occasionally in my classes, right, then you have to kind of suggest that they go and get some clinical help, because it is very treatable, um, it is a manageable condition, but
There are some people who are far more concerned of death than others.
And as with most anxiety conditions, though, there's a way to support those people through those fears.
I think one of the nicest things about coming from the background of an anthropologist is that anthropologists are interested in humanity writ large.
Not just what we do in our society, but how everyone around the world practices being human, right?
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