In Reviewing the Status of Research and Practice in Thanatology

question 19

Multiple Choice

In reviewing the status of research and practice in thanatology, Herman Feifel points out that the

• A) fear of death is a monolithic variable.
• B) human mind operates on various levels of reality or finite provinces of meaning.
• C) human mind operates in an interdependent, not autonomous, manner.
• D) conscious fear of death is unrelated to innate fears.

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