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When a person has spiritual beliefs and values, their beliefs can help protect and facilitate against the fear and anxiety of death to lead to acceptance of death - potentially contrasting someone who does not have any holistic or religious beliefs. [42] [43] 2. Human beings are meaning-seeking and meaning-making creatures.
Teratophilia is classified as a paraphilia. [citation needed] Rather than view the condition as a kink, defenders of teratophilia believe it allows people to see beauty outside of societal standards. [3]
The handkerchief code (also known as the hanky/hankie code, the bandana/bandanna code, and flagging) [1] is a system of color-coded cloth handkerchief or bandanas for non-verbally communicating one's interests in sexual activities and fetishes.
Necrophobia's known origins stem from Ancient Greek culture and have been present since the Neolithic period. At this time, it was a believed fear that the dead would arise in a state that was "neither living or dead, but rather 'undead.'" [ 8 ] They believed that the purpose for this was to harm the living.
Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
“When you go to nursing school, you don’t think you’ll plan a wedding, but that was really important for the patient and family that day,” one of the nurses said
Despite not being recognized specifically by the American Psychiatric Association in the DSM-5, it does meet their criteria for a specific phobia, which is a type of anxiety disorder. [1] There are no known treatment methods that are specifically designed to treat apeirophobia, [ 5 ] although some apeirophobics have benefited from anti-anxiety ...
Death and culture. Obituary; Death and the Internet; Disposal of human corpses; Expressions related to death; Personification of death – the concept of Death as a sentient entity has existed in many societies since the beginning of recorded history. For example, in English culture, Death is often given the name "the Grim Reaper" and, from the ...