Contemporary psychological research suggest that whereas death anxiety is a type of psychopathology, fear of death is almost universal in crisis situations like in severe illness, accidents, child-birth, old age, battlefield experience etc. Concepts of death anxiety and fear of death have been discussed, with case histories. This book further analyses Lord Krishna's counsel to Arjuna to bring him out of dejection and refusal to fight. BG 2.7 may be regarded as a ...