It has been the practice to treat death anxiety as a uniform or single entity, without recognizing the underlying typology. The importance of refining that concept comes from clinical findings that different types of traumatic events lead to different forms of death anxiety, each of which is experienced and responded to by humans in a distinctive manner. These responses are both conscious and unconscious i.e. within or outside direct awareness. The former are generally well known and these include traumatic and post-traumatic stress syndromes and responses to cancer and other types of grave...