Mansour Kavoosi - Mansour kavoosi, PhD students in Crisis Management Field in Shakes Pajouh institute Esfahan
Sara Mousavi - Corresponding author. Sara mousavi, Graduated in MA General Psychology. Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Persian Gulf University, Iran
Fatehmeh Moradi - Fatemeh Moradi, Graduated in MA Counselling. Faculty of Literature and Humanities, science research azad University of Ahvaz, Iran

Abstract: All society has always been somewhat intrigued by death anxiety and its relationship with life expectancy.Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between death anxiety and life expectancy on the basis of gender and age. There were 200 participants ranging in age from 40-70 years who took part in the study. Methods: To analyze the statistical methods used in this study: A) Descriptive statistics: frequency, percentage, percent cumulative mean, standard deviation, minimum and maximum score. B) Statistical methods: Pearson simple method to test hypotheses and independent group’s t-test was used. In order to analyze the data collected by computer software (SPSS) version 20 was used.

life expectancy, death anxiety, Gender, elderly age