This study examined the death attitudes of a number of prominent thanatologists over a 15-year span. Subjects were surveyed using Feifel’s Death Attitudes Questionnaire, a Death Semantic Differential Test, & a Death Metaphors Test in 1973 & again in 1988. Almost two-thirds reported some fear of death, & only 20 percent indicated that the idea of their own death was “easy to accept.” Death attitudes were remarkably stable over the 15-year interval. The major difference found was a lessening of death fear. (31 refs)