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Existential guilt and the fear of death. 2017

William Breitbart

Editor-in-Chief,Palliative & Supportive Care,Chairman,Jimmie C. Holland Chair in Psychiatric Oncology,Chief,Psychiatry Service,Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences,Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center,641 Lexington Avenue,7th Floor,New York,New York 10022E-Mail:Breitbaw@mskcc.org.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D005086	Existentialism	Philosophy based on the analysis of the individual's existence in the world which holds that human existence cannot be completely described in scientific terms. Existentialism also stresses the freedom and responsibility of the individual as well as the uniqueness of religious and ethical experiences and the analysis of subjective phenomena such as anxiety, guilt, and suffering. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed.)	Existential Psychology,Psychology, Existential
D005239	Fear	The affective response to an actual current external danger which subsides with the elimination of the threatening condition.	Threat Cues,Threat Sensitivity,Cue, Threat,Fears,Sensitivity, Threat,Threat Cue,Threat Sensitivities
D006167	Guilt	Subjective feeling of having committed an error, offense or sin; unpleasant feeling of self-criticism. These result from acts, impulses, or thoughts contrary to one's personal conscience.	Guilts
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001293	Attitude to Death	Conceptual response of the person to the various aspects of death, which are based on individual psychosocial and cultural experience.	Attitudes to Death,Death, Attitude to,Death, Attitudes to