Affect fades faster for unpleasant events than for pleasant events (e.g., Walker, Vogl, & Thompson, 1997 Walker, W. R. , Vogl, R. J. , & Thompson, C. P. (1997). Autobiographical memory: Unpleasantness fades faster than pleasantness over time. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 11, 399–413. doi:10.1002/(sici)1099-0720(199710)11:53.0.co;2-e [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar] ), which is referred to as the fading affect bias (FAB; Walker, Skowronski, Gibbons, Vogl, & Thompson, 2003 Walker, W. R. , Skowronski, J. J. , Gibbons, J. A. , Vogl, R. J. , & Thompson, C. P. (2003). On the emotions that accompany autobiographical memories: Dysphoria disrupts the fading affect bias. Cognition & Emotion, 17, 703–723. doi:10.1080/02699930302287 [Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar] ). Although research has generally shown that the FAB is a healthy coping mechanism, this same finding has not been demonstrated at a specific level of analysis accounting for particular event types and related individual differences (e.g., Gibbons et al., 2013 Gibbons, J. A. , Toscano, A. , Kofron, S. , Rothwell, C. , Lee, S. , Ritchie, T. , & Walker, W. R. (2013). The fading affect bias across alcohol consumption frequency for alcohol-related and non-alcohol-related events. Consciousness and Cognition, 22, 1340–1351. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2013.09.004 [Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar] ). Given the strong unpleasant emotions associated with death (Rask, Kaunonen, & Paunonen-Ilmonen, 2002 Rask, K. , Kaunonen, M. , & Paunonen-Ilmonen, M. (2002). Adolescent coping with grief after the death of a loved one. International Journal of Nursing Practice, 8, 137–142. doi:10.1046/j.1440-172X.2002.00354.x [Crossref], [PubMed] , [Google Scholar] ), the current study examined FAB in the context of death events and participant attitudes toward death. General healthy coping was shown by robust FAB across death and control (i.e., everyday) events and by a negative correlation between negative religious coping and FAB. Although healthy coping at a specific level of analysis was supported by increased FAB for participants who held accepting attitudes toward death when they recalled everyday events, it was not supported by decreased FAB for the same participants when they recalled death events. This effect was mediated by rehearsal ratings, not depression. Implications are discussed.