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A cognitive awareness and emotional acceptance of our own finitude (i.e., existential
acceptance or neutral death acceptance; NDA) has been considered a key element of a fulfilled, authentic, and compassionate life by many authorse.g., 1,2. Recently, death has been labelled a ‘new frontier’3, and NDA the ‘essence’4 of positive psychology. Yet, empirical research into dispositional predictors of NDA is scarce. Terror management theory research shows that, when applying denial-based coping with mortality (i.e., the opposite of NDA), people distance themselves from phenomena that remind them of their own finiteness. We propose that open and engaging orientations toward potentially death-reminding phenomena (i.e., nature, the transient present, and one’s future) may foster NDA.
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