Fear of one's own death describes which term?

• A. Fear of death
• B. Personal fear
• C. Process fear
• D. Unknown fear

Answer: (B)

Fear of one's own death is best described as a personal fear because it centers on the individual’s own mortality and subjective experience. This kind of fear reflects how a specific person, with their beliefs, life story, health status, and coping style, personally encounters the idea of dying. It isn’t just about death in a general sense or about the dying process itself; it’s about how this particular person processes and feels about their own end of life.

The other terms describe different angles: fear of death refers to death in a broader, more general sense; process fear focuses on the experience of dying itself (pain, loss of control); and unknown fear emphasizes the unknown aspects of death. None of those inherently captures the intimate, self-directed nature of fearing one’s own death the way “personal fear” does.