“Out of the Depths Have I Called Thee”: Jewish Israeli Undertakers’ Management of Death Anxiety

According to Terror Management Theory, there are three common buffers that minimize the anxiety of mortality salience: affirmation of one’s cultural worldview, the self and one’s personal values, and one’s significance in the context of close personal relationships. The current study aimed to explor...

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Published in:Omega: Journal of Death and Dying 2022-12, Vol.86 (2), p.624-643
Main Author: Mahat-Shamir, Michal
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Death & dying
Death anxiety
Death awareness
Interpersonal relations
Mortality
Terror management theory
Values
Worldview
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Summary:According to Terror Management Theory, there are three common buffers that minimize the anxiety of mortality salience: affirmation of one’s cultural worldview, the self and one’s personal values, and one’s significance in the context of close personal relationships. The current study aimed to explore the manner by which Jewish Israeli undertakers manage their constant exposure to death and buffer against death anxiety. A deductive and inductive thematic analysis captured a dialectical movement between, and within, two conflicting worldviews participants were engaged in, in their attempt to manage the mortality salience effect they experience and buffer against death anxiety.
ISSN:0030-2228
1541-3764
DOI:10.1177/0030222820983115