The phrase "afraid to death" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the phrase to describe a very intense feeling of fear, for example: "The thunderstorm left the child so afraid to death that she refused to leave the house."
It wasn't afraid to stare death in the face - often a rather gruesome face.
"People told me," he writes, "they loved talking to someone who wasn't afraid to discuss death".
Moving away from analyzing why big companies are afraid to look death straight into its hollow eyes we should instead look at what Amazon has put in place thanks to this self-awareness to prevent it.
She and John had often discussed end-of-life care, but "too many of us are afraid to speak about death and dying and therefore when the time comes, the people who are left behind don't know what to do".
The area was notorious as a place where the police were afraid to patrol and death sentences were handed out by Taliban courts.
The way Straight's poetic language lingers over Glorette's corpse, being readied at home for burial after others are too afraid to report her death to the police, bends a potentially reverent scene — the chapter is entitled "Something Like Sanctified" — toward the macabre.
Do the things you're afraid to do and death of fear is certain.
She said her husband could barely move his arms and legs and was afraid of choking to death on his own saliva.
And then he poisoned himself, but not because he was worried about living out the rest of his existence in penniless obscurity, but because he was afraid of starving to death.
Epstein called Kaczynski a coward: "He himself, who was willing to sentence other people to death, was afraid to die himself.
