Impact Of Death Anxiety: A Study On Julie Murphy’s Side Effects May Vary

Abstract

The life consists of sequential events, which is the mixture of pleasure and pity.  The events of life leave few impacts on the character of the person.  Few occasions it produces Anxiety or Trauma in the mind.  Anxiety occurs out of the following situations like Death, Disease, Rape, War and so on.  The present study explores the Anxiety comes out of Death.  Death Anxiety is also called as Thanatophobia, which means Fear of Death in Greek.  It grows from thinking one’s own death or other’s death.  The researcher chooses the novel, Side Effects May Vary by Julie Murphy for the Study.  The Death anxiety of the protagonist, the impacts occurred on her life and how she applies her defense mechanisms to reduce her Anxiety are the core of this study.