The differences of attitudes toward death among three groups were investigated. The groups were early adolescence, late adolescence and preadult, and adult. The attitudes toward death were measured with Templer\u27s Death Anxiety Scale (DAS) as conscious level measurement and the semantic differential method (SD) of five concepts including "death" as that of fantasy level. The total DAS score, DAS factor scores, scale scores and factor scores of SD, distance scores between "death" and other four concepts, and the correlation coefficients between conscious level measurement scores and those of fantasy level were compared, finding some differences. Preliminarily the item analysis of DAS (Japanese version) was carried out
