Abstract
To the Editor.— In several studies of the fear of death which used self-report attitude scales, it has been found that women have a higher fear of death than men. 1 This has been interpreted at its face value hitherto. However, in a recent newspaper article, 2 Sgt John Fiano, who worked on death row at Sing Sing for many years, is quoted as saying: Always, when there was more than one to be executed in one night, the weakest went first. The person with the strongest will goes last. In all my years at Sing Sing, women are always the last to go. They were much stronger emotionally than men. This, if a valid and reliable fact, has great importance for the interpretation of sex differences in the fear of death. It suggests that what might be happening is that men deny their fear of death when answering a
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