Citation

Kuylen M, Han S, Harris L, Huys Q, Monsó S, Pitman A, Fleming SM, David AS. Omega (Westport) 2022; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, Sage Publications)

DOI

10.1177/00302228221100640

PMID

35531947

Abstract

Thinking about our own death and its salience in relation to decision making has become a fruitful area of multidisciplinary research across the breadth of psychological science. By bringing together experts from philosophy, cognitive and affective neuroscience, clinical and computational psychiatry we have attempted to set out the current state of the art and point to areas of further enquiry. One stimulus for doing this is the need to engage with policy makers who are now having to consider guidelines on suicide and assisted suicide so that they may be aware of their own as well as the wider populations' cognitive processes when confronted with the ultimate truth of mortality.

Language: en

Keywords

suicide; terror management theory; cognitive neuroscience; death anxiety; functional magnetic resonance imaging