scholarly journals Attitude to Life and Death in Adolescents with Oncological Disease

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 39-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Medvedeva ◽  
R. Kadyrov
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Comparison Group ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Rehabilitation Treatment ◽  
Oncological Disease ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
Projective Technique ◽  
Life Problems

The article discusses the attitude towards life and death in adolescents with cancer. The behavioral, cognitive and emotional components of the attitude to life and death in adolescents with cancer are described. Surveyed 83 teenagers. The main group - adolescents with cancer in remission (41 people), the average age of adolescents was 14 ± 1.1 years. The time spent in the department of rehabilitation treatment ranged from 7 to 21 days. The comparison group - pupils of Secondary School №7 (42 people), the average age of adolescents was 14 ± 1.1 years. Psychodiagnostic methods were used: 1) Death Attitude Profile-Revised Questionnaire; 2) Questionnaire with elements of an associative experiment, specially designed for the study; 3) Drawing projective technique “Drawing life and death”, R.V. Kadyrov. In the course of the study, the influence of the characteristics of attitudes towards life and death on the process of rehabilitation treatment and rehabilitation was revealed. Differences in attitudes towards life and death in adolescents also identified. In adolescents with cancer, the fear of death is more pronounced, the concept of life after death has more religious ideas than in the comparison group, and death perceived as a way to avoid life problems. They are less responsible about their future, the concept of the meaning of life is abstract or not formed.

The Religious Functions of Near-Death Experiences

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Schlieter
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
Near Death Experiences

This final chapter secures the result of the survey by discussing the religious functions of near-death experiences for affected individuals, but also the functions of the reports for the audience. It outlines (a) ontological, (b) epistemic, (c) intersubjective, and (d) moral aspects. It has been argued that experiencers feel closer to God, are less attracted to religion, and are significantly more inclined to believe in life after death. A function of the narratives consists in the claim that, in atheistic and secular times, individual religious experience is still possible. Several reports argue with a copresence of life and death. Discussing cognitivist approaches, the chapter finally concludes that, given the Latin etymology of “experience,” harboring, among others, the meaning of “being exposed to danger” or “passing a test,” near-death experiences can be seen as a match for conceptions of religious experience as a transformative, gained by surviving a life-threatening danger.

scholarly journals Factors Moderating the Impact of After Death Communications on Beliefs and Spirituality

2021 ◽  
pp. 003022282110291
Author(s):  
Jennifer K. Penberthy ◽  
Marieta Pehlivanova ◽  
Tevfik Kalelioglu ◽  
Chris A. Roe ◽  
Callum E. Cooper ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Experience ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Emotional Reaction ◽  
Physical Contact ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
Moderating Factors ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes

After death communications(ADCs) are defined as perceived spontaneous contacts with living individuals by the deceased. This research presents on a subset of data from a recent large international survey of individuals who experienced ADCs and provided systematic information regarding these experiences. In our research we explore the impact of having an ADC on reported spirituality, religiosity, beliefs and attitudes about death and dying and also explore the moderating factors of this impact. We found that having an ADC was perceived as a positive life experience and that it was associated with a reduction in fear of death, belief in life after death and that the deceased could communicate with the living, and increased reported spirituality. Moderating factors include aspects of having or desiring physical contact with the deceased as well as perceiving some emotional reaction to the ADCs. Future directions for research exploration are also provided based on our findings.

scholarly journals THE EXISTENTIAL NATURE OF THE HIKMETS OF AHMED YASSAWI

Adam alemi ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 90 (4) ◽  
pp. 43-52
Author(s):  
N. Sarsenbekov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Direct Path ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Existential Crisis ◽  
Time And Being

This article analyzes existential concepts in the work of Ahmet Yassawi “Diwani hikmet”, which forms the Sufi direction of the deeply rooted Turkic civilization, using comparative research methods. In this context, the article collected and investigated the following metaphysical problems, such as the unity and struggle of time and being, disinterested attachment to the Creator, as well as the phenomenon of life and death. The content of the Hikmet is an existential representation of a religious preaching orientation, filled with the principles of a nomadic civilization developed in the Kazakh steppe. Although the main goal of the Hikmet is religious, there are often such existentials as the existence of the Creator and the problems of human existence, life and death, morality, justice, responsibility, conscience. The main position of the Hikmets is to point out a direct path to the Islamic world and suggest ways to form a “True Muslim”. The concepts of the book of wisdom are a way of revealing transcendental contradictions for those who are in an existential crisis. For those who cannot understand the meaning of life and are in existential stagnation, we decided to use the hikmet of Ahmet Yassawi to explain the meaning of real life.

Mesopotamian Religion

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-19
Author(s):  
Tzvi Abusch
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
The State ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Public ◽  
Religious Significance ◽  
Short Piece ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Cult Of The Individual ◽  
The Temple

This chapter presents the background situation that gave rise to Mesopotamian religious concepts, as well as the forms of the gods and their service in the classical theology of Mesopotamia. The chapter examines both the temple cult, that is, the public dimension of the religion, and the cult of the individual. It studies several supernatural beings, some active in the state pantheon, others in the sphere of family life, and discusses several literary works of religious significance. The chapter concludes its reflections on Mesopotamian religion with a short piece about the Epic of Gilgamesh, a profound Mesopotamian reflection on the meaning of life and death.

Active Dead or Alive: Some Kenyan Views About the Agency of Luo and Luyia Women Pre- and Post-Mortem

2000 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Significant Part ◽  
Post Mortem ◽  
Roman Catholicism ◽  
Community Agency ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Western Kenya ◽  
Indigenous Religion ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Life After Death

AbstractPaying attention to burial disputes can help us to understand better matters relating to gender, kinship, community, agency, and power. Since Luo and Luyia believe that life after death is a significant part of a person's life, paying attention to 'the hold death has' upon people is important, as are the writing of 'life-and-death histories.' The paper presents three cases, one involving a Luyia woman and two involving Luo women in which the women involved have, in the views of community members, shown the ability to manipulate kinship structures and strictures pre- and post-mortem. The paper seeks to challenge views that have depicted women in western Kenya as passive pawns of a particularly patriarchal form of patriliny. The paper discusses the effect religion has on views about death and burial, and examines the influence of indigenous religion, Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, and Legio Maria on these cases.

Mathematics and Meteorology

1986 ◽  
Vol 79 (8) ◽  
pp. 602-603
Author(s):  
Eric F. Wood
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Teaching Mathematics ◽  
School Students ◽  
Weather Forecasts ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
School Classroom ◽  
Interesting Discussion ◽  
Local Weather

One of the ironies of teaching mathematics is that real-life problems, although interesting, are often too difficult to consider in a secondary school classroom. Consequently the problems that are used in texts are often somewhat contrived. While working at the local weather office, I came upon several applications of trigonometry that are both interesting and instructive for high school students. The problems require that some background knowledge be presented to the students, but often they will have at least heard about the ideas from the nightly weather forecasts on television. These ideas make an interesting discussion for both teacher and student.

Death

2020 ◽  
pp. 117-140
Author(s):  
Stephen E. Rosenbaum
Keyword(s):  
Death Penalty ◽  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Value Judgments ◽  
Life And Death

This article explicates Epicurus’s ambiguous declaration that “death is nothing to us,” discusses its philosophical implications, and answers the most common recent philosophical objections to the view. One barrier to appreciating Epicurus’s view has been lack of understanding what he meant, and the author clarifies Epicurus’s idea using Epicurean texts. Since Epicurus used his view to undermine death anxiety, the author discusses fear of death and how Epicurean thinking treats it. The paper discusses flaws in recent philosophical objections against Epicurus’s view, that it ignores what death deprives people of, that it is incompatible with the wrongness of killing, and that it does not permit certain comparative value judgments about life and death. Since the view has implications for the death penalty, the author discusses those, and urges that Epicurean philosophy of death can profitably illuminate contemporary thinking.

‘I want to go!’ How older people in Ghana look forward to death

2002 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
SJAAK VAN DER GEEST
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
Rural Town ◽  
Anthropological Fieldwork ◽  
Southern Ghana ◽  
Christian Beliefs

Older people in a rural Ghanaian community indicated that they look forward to death. Traditional ideas of ancestorhood, reincarnation and modern Christian beliefs about life after death had little influence on their resignation. Images of a possible ‘hereafter’ hardly existed. Agnosticism – in a religious guise – prevailed. They saw death foremost as a welcome rest after a long and strenuous life. Their readiness for death did not, however, include an acceptance of euthanasia. Both the young and the old held the view that life and death are and should remain in God's hands. This article is based on anthropological fieldwork in the rural town of Kwahu-Tafo in southern Ghana.

scholarly journals Poświęcić niepewność – prolegomena do badań nad kinem postsekularnym

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (39) ◽  
pp. 47-66
Author(s):  
Anna Maria Piskorska
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Film Culture ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Life After Death ◽  
Religious Nature

This article undertakes the issue of defining film phenomena which put forward questions of a primary religious nature (about the meaning of life, source of evil, life after death, the existence of Absolute, etc.) in a way that is independent from major religious traditions. The author posits that describing this phenomenon in the case of European film culture is done best by employing the philosophical thought of postsecularism. Utilizing Mieke Bal’s method of cultural analysis, the author takes as an example the term “sacrifice” to point to the existence of different models by which religious topics are undertaken by the cinema. This leads to a preliminary typology of the phenomenon which differentiates between ‘apologetic’ and ‘critical’ films and, furthermore, between films that refer to particular religious traditions and those expressing a postsecular perspective.

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