The Phenomenon of Suicide: The Study of Existential Motivation and Attitudes towards Fear of Death

Abstract

Due to the fact that a person has the opportunity to make a decision in relation to his own life, the problem of suicide is the most relevant. Making such a decision, a person makes a conscious and deliberate attempt to take his own life. In this case, for a person, life is meaningless, priceless and needless. Currently, the growth in the number of suicides is only increasing, and the problem of suicide is one of the main ones in existential psychology. In addition, any person is able to realize the finiteness of his existence, to feel the presence of a vague, hidden fear of something unknown, before death itself, which makes the topic of death one of the most important, that given of human existence. This article investigates existential motivation and fear of death in relation to suicidal attempts and suicidal thoughts.