What is the paradox in acquiring an awareness of death?
a. The awareness tends to help people live longer.
b. When one develops this awareness, others around him/her also develop the awareness.
c. An awareness of death almost always brings accelerated aging.
d. This awareness often impels us to life with more zest and creativity.
e. Those with an awareness of death to not benefit much from an existential counseling approach.
Question 2
How are goal attainment and death anxiety related?
a. They are not; both exist on different psychological planes.
b. Those with a healthy level of death anxiety set more realistic goals.
c. Goal-setting is an unattainable task for those struggling with death anxiety.
d. Both are concepts that are focused upon exclusively in existential therapy.
e. A person with death anxiety will avoid the pursuit of goals because it always involves some level of risk, and will choose a course of greater security.
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