Death anxiety and loneliness are major problems for older people. Life expectancy has increased impressively over the last century, but the culture of current societies seems to have great difficulty relating to the limits of finite life. Terror Management Theory teaches us that we tend to imagine that we can reserve the problem of the end of life for others, that is, for those who are “really old”. Individuals naturally tend to avoid fears and potentially threatening situations, such as fear of age-related diseases, fear of loneliness in old age and fear of death, situations that stimulate avoidance reactions. When avoidance is not possible, loneliness may become a fierce enemy of the older person. In this case, individuals may find themselves feeling the lack of close attachments, physical touch and intimacy, as well as the deterioration of their health. Depression becomes not only a possible but a frequent evolution, capable of exacerbating the sense of separation from the world and of nourishing self-suppressive ideas. In fact, suicide in old age continues to represent a painfully present eventuality at all latitudes.