Healthy Living

Do You have a Death Phobia? You Have Thanatophobia

Who usually suffers from thanatophobia?

While you might assume that those who are older fear death the most, this is not the case. The fear of death reaches its height when someone is around twenty years old, and as they get older the fear fades. Turns out, as those who grow older and lose their thanatophobia, their children become increasingly fearful, likely due to the fear of losing their parents. 

Though both men and women tend to experience thanatophobia when they are in their twenties, it is predominantly women who have a second wave of the condition when they reach their fifties.