Designer Thinks About Death Every Hour: Why Do We Dwell on Dying?

Fashion-designer-turned-director Tom Ford said he thinks a lot about death. Many people probably share Ford's morbid tendencies, at least to some extent, Pelin Kesebir, an assistant scientist and psychologist at the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Live Science. It's rare that people have a pathological fear of death, she said.