This article concerns the phenomenon of death anxiety during the work-retirement transition period. It is first a proposal to define the notion of death anxiety and to demonstrate theoretic and empirical evidence from documentation on the subject. This article is secondly a proposal for exploring the phenomenon of death anxiety by using pre-retirement, intra-retirement, and post-retirement histories of three older employees involved in the work-retirement transition process. These three personal stories stem from a sampling of personal stories from a longitudinal study on the transition to retirement. From a practical point of view, this study contributes to identifying the needs of people in the retirement transition and in doing so also contributes to pinpointing leads to favor so as to intervene better on their behalf.