How to cope with ‘death anxiety,’ according to a hospital chaplain

class=”story”> What being around death taught this hospital chaplain about life December 30, 202511:24 AM ET

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Marielle Segarra

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Malaka Gharib

Hanna Barczyk for NPR

About a year into his job as an interfaith chaplain at Tampa General Hospital in Tampa, Fla., J.S. Park began to have what he calls “really awful death anxiety.”

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