"Death is sweet: it delivers us from the thought of death,"
wrote the facetious Jules Renard with mischief. The fear of dying is perhaps the most common and the most human of all. According to an Ifop poll commissioned by the MGEN and Maif insurance groups last summer, 41% of French people even regularly think of death. The Covid-19 pandemic may have accentuated this phenomenon by creating an anxiety-provoking climate, in particular among fragile or dependent people.
"During the first confinement, while the number of deaths was looping on television, some of my patients wrote to their children and put their lives in order",
testifies for example Marie de Hennezel, clinical psychologist and psychotherapist .
But humanity did not wait for the Covid to collectively suffer from this universal anxiety.
However, the fear of death remains a delicate subject for therapists.
Partly because it can send them back to their own questions ...
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