It has often been argued that American society denies death (Feifel, 1963; Gorer, 1965) as a strategy of dealing with a universal fear of death. The present investigation attempted to determine to what extent young men and women employ this technique in confronting the problems of imminent and distant death, and what attitudinal variables differentiate those confronting and those denying the potential existence of death. Parsons' (1963) notion that the inevitability of death determines the individual's ability for acceptance was also explored in this investigation.
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