Fears of death are not so extensive as might be supposed. In a public opinion poll of 1500 adults, only about 4 percent showed evidence of direct fearing their own death. 【S1】______ Those fears that do exist apparently change with age. Hall found that younger individuals fear the occur of death, 【S2】______ whereas old people fear the circumstances of death. In another 【S3】______ study, elderly patients were rated for signs of fear before death. It was found that feelings of acceptance, anticipation, and, in some cases, apathy, far outnumber instances of fear 【S4】______ before death. These findings seem to indicate a general lack of fear about death, but there is other possible interpretation. It 【S5】______ may be more accurate to say that they reflect a deeply ingrained tendency to deny the reality of death. The mere fact that death has been something of a taboo subject suggest that underlying fears do exist. When Psychology 【S6】______ Today surveyed its readers on the subject of death, it was found that less than one-thirds of those who 【S7】______ replied to grew up in families in which death was openly 【S8】______ talked about. The average person's exposure of death 【S9】______ unfortunately consists of the artificial and obviously unrealistic portrayals of death on TV. It has been estimated that by the time a person is 14 years old, he or she will witness 18 【S10】______ 000 TV deaths. With almost no exception these will have been homicides, not deaths due to illness or aging. 【S1】