Suicidal, psychiatric & normal adolescents participated in a study on 5 types of death fears. Relative to the other groups, suicidal adolescents displayed little differentiation between facets of fear, with differences in the magnitude of fear limited to the intrapersonal facets. Fear was positively correlated with suicidality in normal subjects, negatively correlated with suicidality among suicidal ones, & unrelated to suicidality in the psychiatric groups. (36 refs.)