Mortality salience
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Mortality salience is the awareness that one's death is inevitable.
The term derives from terror management theory, which proposes the so-called mortality salience hypothesis: mortality salience causes existential anxiety that may be buffered by one's cultural worldview and/or a sense of self-esteem.