Abstract
The aim of the present study was to explore the relation between Death Attitudes and Meaning in Life. Besides this exploratory approach, it was also hypothesized that ‘Search for Meaning’ would be significantly greater than ‘Presence of Meaning’ in youth population. For this purpose, 60 males and 60 female students were conveniently approached in University of Karachi to participate in the study. Two questionnaires were administered; Death Attitudes Profile – Revised (subscales; fear of death, death avoidance, neutral acceptance, approach acceptance and escape acceptance) and Meaning in Life (subscales; search for meaning and presence of meaning). Results revealed gender difference in two death attitudes. Hypothesis regarding search for meaning being greater than presence of meaning was proved. Exploratory analysis of death attitudes and meaning in life showed complex relation.  The aim of the present study was to explore the relation between Death Attitudes and Meaning in Life. Besides this exploratory approach, it was also hypothesized that ‘Search for Meaning’ would be significantly greater than ‘Presence of Meaning’ in youth population. For this purpose, 60 males and 60 female students were conveniently approached in University of Karachi to participate in the study. Two questionnaires were administered; Death Attitudes Profile – Revised (subscales; fear of death, death avoidance, neutral acceptance, approach acceptance and escape acceptance) and Meaning in Life (subscales; search for meaning and presence of meaning). Results revealed gender difference in two death attitudes. Hypothesis regarding search for meaning being greater than presence of meaning was proved. Exploratory analysis of death attitudes and meaning in life showed complex relation. Â
Highlights
Death is a fact, an undeniable and unstoppable reality
The five main areas that branched from his researches were; death attitudes in the elderly, the relationship of death concerns to physical illness, death anxiety of medical and non-medical caregivers, the relationship between fear of death and psychopathology, and association between religiosity and apprehension of death (Neimeyer, Wittkowski, & Moser, 2004)
In the field on pathology, it was seen that greater neuroticism was accompanied by death anxiety and higher suicide risk was positively related to death concern
Summary
Death is a fact, an undeniable and unstoppable reality. But how many of us humans accept this ultimate change that life brings? The quote above is enough to transfix and cause great anxiety in the majority. It was Herman Fiefel who initially broke this wall of taboo in scientific community By his great efforts and long standing commitment to the subject, death and dying became a topic of research by 1950s. After losing his family, suffering anguish and getting tortured in concentration camp, he derived a theory belonging to Existential Approach toward psychology, called Logotherapy. Movies showed characters who rise above their disease, diagnoses or suffering and face death head on by living fully and evoking inner transformation, example movies Ikiru and Cast Away (Niemiec, & Schulenberg, 2011) These cases and Frankl’s own life story demonstrate that death can be more than just its negative version, it can be used as a positive drive as well
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