In Popular Culture
- The Polish minimalist composer, Tomasz Sikorski wrote a piece of music inspired by the work, which includes a recitation of Kierkergaard's text.
- The sixteenth episode of the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion, The Sickness Unto Death, And…, is named after the book. Much of the series' philosophical and psychological subtext draws influence from and makes reference to the pessimism of Arthur Schopenhauer and the existentialism of Søren Kierkegaard and Jean-Paul Sartre.
- The manga The Sickness Unto Death ("Shi ni Itaru Yamai"), by Asada Hikari, uses Kierkegaard's ideas of despair within a story about multiple personality disorder.
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