The role that situational/transitional anxiety situations can have in heightening ones sense of death anxiety is introduced in this chapter. Identify an example of a situation in which you experienced a major transition of some sort that resulted in feelings of losssuch as leaving home to go to college, the ending of a significant relationship that they had been involved with (friendship, dating), or any other situation that fits the definitionand briefly describe the situation, what thoughts or feelings it evoked, and how it might, in retrospect, interrelate with the concept of death anxiety.
