Awareness of Dying is a 1965 book (ISBN 0-202-30763-8) by Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss.

Strauss started field studies and six months later hired Glaser from Columbia University.

Both researchers already had personal experience with the subject: Strauss had lost his mother and a friend in recent years, Glaser his father.

Strauss and Glaser suspected early on that the expectation of death by both the dying and the relatives were a key to understanding the interactions between those people.

[citation needed] Only two years later did Glaser and Strauss publish The Discovery of Grounded Theory, a book on the methodology they developed while working on Awareness of Dying.