A Qualitative Study on the Death Anxiety Experience in Youth

This study is a qualitative study to understand young adult’ death anxiety within their existential, life, and cultural contexts.. For the study, data were collected through participatory observation, psychological interviews, and field data surveys from April 2023 to January 2024. While the existing death anxiety studies were mainly conducted on the elderly, this study focused on young people. The research puzzle was how the study participants experience and perceive ontological anxiety and what kind of death anxiety stories are formed within the context of the relationship between Christian beliefs. The method of narrative inquiry was used to open and reveal the experience of death anxiety of young person, and the meaningful composition of the story that the study participants survived is as follows. First, it is ‘unexplained death anxiety’, second, ‘contact with the clear inner world’, third, ‘the disconnection of existence versus existence’, and fourth, ‘freedom to take control of me’. Discovering and understanding death anxiety is the beginning of living as a being in the world for an individual, and it will give insight into how to deal with it to counseling sites and churches.