Necrophobia is the
irrational fear of corpses, not just those of people but animals as well. Also included in this fear are
the people, objects and ceremonies
associated with death such as undertakers, morticians, coffins, tombstones, cemeteries and funerals. In a another way necrophobia could also be used to mean a fear of the dead by a cultural group, that their spirits will return to haunt the living, causing them harm in some way.