Abstract
We asked a group of 52 young adults three open questions about their personal conceptions of death. We accessed polarity of emotion united to images of post-mortal state and the strengths of belief in afterlife using Likert scales and we took a look at death anxiety and the experienced meaningfulness of life levels through existing scales.
Our research combined qualitative (open questions) and quantitative (psychological scales) methodology. The gathered data showed us the importance of both the content of the conceptions and the fact of how precise and specific our conceptions are.
Probands that had certain and definite images of what comes after we die, tend to fear death less, and have stronger belief in afterlife. Respondents that imagined death as the end of their existence in any form showed a tendency to have negative emotions related to their conceptions of death.