Reducing oneâs income reduces oneâs tax bill, so the volunteer gets the benefit of lower taxes by not making money while volunteering. This assumes one makes money by working. Most pre-retirement adult people do. However, this explanation also assumes that oneâs income is tied to the hours one works.
Fear of Dying? Fear of dying also known as thanatophobia or fear of death is not at all a popular topic of discussion. You wonât find too many people indulging you to such thoughts. When you fear death, you are definitely behaving abnormally because here you are disregarding the truth of life.
But, by pushing death out of our minds, we do avoid thinking about it for now. And that is the key, for Yalom, that intensifies death fear. Put differently, short term death anxiety forces a pushing of death thoughts out of one's mind, but it actually increases death anxiety over time. For Yalom then, to truly face one's death with full conscious thought and feeling is to overcome death anxiety.