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Sawyer, J. S. (2024). Grief and bereavement beliefs and their associations with death anxiety and complicated grief in a U.S. College student sample. Death Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2024.2349933
This article reviewed the myths surrounding grief and death from a larger sample of US college students.

Khajoei, R., Dehghan, M., Heydarpour, N., Mazallahi, M., Shokohian, S., & Azizzadeh Forouzi, M. (2022). Comparison of death anxiety, death obsession, and humor in nurses and medical emergency personnel in COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Emergency Nursing, 48(5), 559–570. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jen.2022.02.004
This cross-sectional study of nurses and emergency medical personnel examined death anxiety, death obsession, and humor during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mahat-Shamir, M., & Kagan, M. (2022). When the times get tough the toughs get funny: Means by which humor buffers against death anxiety emerged during COVID-19 outbreak. PLoS ONE, 17(8). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0273338
This study examined memes posted on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic to assess the role of humor in buffering death anxiety.

Sawyer, J. S., Brewster, M. E., & Ertl, M. M. (2021). Death anxiety and death acceptance in atheists and other nonbelievers. Death Studies, 45(6), 459–468. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2019.1648339
This article explored the role of age, belief in science and gender in death anxiety.

National University. (2024). SOPSS loss and bereavement. Library Support Guides [Online]. https://resources.nu.edu/lossbereavement/home
This library support guide has curated material on death and dying.

Li, C., Dang, J., & Liu, L. (2024). Enough terror to belong: The nonlinear association of death anxiety with group identification. Depression and Anxiety, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1155/2024/3699789
This study examined death anxiety levels in relationship to the individual’s village, county, and country.