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  2. Terror management theory - Wikipedia

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    Proposition 2 suggests that the unconscious resonance of death-related cognition promotes self-oriented defenses directed toward maintaining, not one's health, but a sense of meaning and self-esteem. The last proposition suggests that confrontations with the physical body may undermine symbolic defenses and thus present a previously ...

  3. Risk compensation - Wikipedia

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    Risk homeostasis is a controversial hypothesis, initially proposed in 1982 by Gerald J. S. Wilde, a professor at Queen's University in Canada, which suggests that people maximise their benefit by comparing the expected costs and benefits of safer and riskier behaviour and which introduced the idea of the target level of risk.

  4. Long Term Care Benefit Plan - Wikipedia

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    A Long Term Care Benefit Plan is also known as an Assurance Benefit Plan. [2] [6] A Benefit Plan is separate from a long term care insurance policy because it allows policy holders to use any form of life insurance policies to pay for long term care. The plan converts a death benefit into a living benefit. [2]

  5. Universal life insurance - AOL

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    Level death benefit: The death benefit remains consistent, similar to whole life insurance. Increasing death benefit: The benefit grows along with the cash value, although premiums are typically ...

  6. Thanatology - Wikipedia

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    The individual level is primarily covered by psychology, the study of individual minds. However, to overlook social psychology would be a serious omission. Avoiding (or, in some cases, seeking) death is an important human motive; the fear of death affects many individuals' actions. That fear can be either reinforced or assuaged by social culture.

  7. Grief counseling - Wikipedia

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    Grief counseling is commonly recommended for individuals who experience difficulties dealing with a personally significant loss. Grief counseling facilitates expression of emotion and thought about the loss, including their feeling sad, anxious, angry, lonely, guilty, relieved, isolated, confused etc.

  8. Internal Revenue Code section 79 - Wikipedia

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    The plan must provide a death benefit excludable from income under Code section 101(a) Must be provided to a group of employees; Must be provided under a policy carried directly or indirectly by the employer; Maximum death benefits for each employee based on a multiple of compensation

  9. Narcissistic mortification - Wikipedia

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    Death, according to Darcy Harris, 'is the ultimate narcissistic wound, bringing about not just the annihilation of self, but the annihilation of one's entire existence, resulting in a form of existential shame for human beings, who possess the ability to ponder this dilemma with their higher functioning cognitive abilities.' [16]