scholarly journals Leven voor de dood. Aanzetten tot een christelijke thanatologie

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-400
Author(s):  
T.T.J. Pleizier
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Art Of Dying ◽  
Attitude Toward Death ◽  
Cultural Expressions ◽  
Near Death Experiences ◽  
Spiritual Attitude

Popular literature shows the need for a contemporary art of dying. This article argues for a Christian thanatology that engages modern phenomena such as near-death-experiences, end-of-life legislation and an imagination that cannot envisions life beyond death. Reformed sources provide three elements for a Christian thanatology: (a) death as the boundary of human existence; (b) a spiritual attitude toward death; and (c) death and as an eccentric existence. A Christian thanatology moves beyond a systematic-theological exploration of the ‘last things’ to offer a ‘practical eschatology’ able to relate Christian imagination with cultural expressions.

scholarly journals Dying old: and preferably alone? Agency, resistance and dissent at the end of life

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Kellehear
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Social Behaviour ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Negative Consequences

Older people who die alone are commonly portrayed negatively in the academic and popular literature. Dying alone is viewed either as an outcome of anti-social behaviour or the result of family, neighbourhood or social services neglect. The idea that people may be exercising agency, resistance or dissent at the end of life and that they do not want attention from services or the wider community receives little or no consideration. By comparing the community and professional views with those of the elderly about end of life preferences, this paper argues that the academic and community image of the elderly as ’’victims’’ has eclipsed the usual ability to see this group in pluralist terms. This stereotype of older people who die alone has negative consequences for sociological and policy analysis.

scholarly journals The Structure of Human Being in Postmodern Philosophy

wisdom ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Aharon ADIBEKIAN
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Philosophical Methodology ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Postmodern Philosophy ◽  
Philosophical Ontology ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Spiritual Attitude

The originality of postmodernism consists in the negation of the intellectual achievements of previous eras and losing the continuity of the problems of human existence, thus, losing the search for its solution. So, it is forced to justify its postulates and methodology by the way of reflection. How can the individual in the case of the negation of philosophical ontology, epistemology and logic make more or less adequate reflection and comparative analysis? Last resort is found in philosophical methodology, which remained beyond criticism of adherents of postmodernism as their different sentences can be considered as a product of detailed methodological postulates. The methodology is veiled by the concept of "discourse", i.e. the characteristics of Postmodernism as a special spiritual attitude and ideological orientation, expressed in "image I" possessing certain connectedness and immersed in a socio-cultural, socio-psychological and other contexts. However, in the postmodernists is implicitly shown the methodological function of philosophy in the formation of the "reflexive consciousness" and "social reflection" as of the two fundamental determinants of human existence in the post-industrial society.

Unusual perceptions at the end of life: limitations to the diagnosis of hallucinations in palliative medicine

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 238-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Kellehear
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Palliative Medicine ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Prevalence Data ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
Disease States ◽  
Current State ◽  
Deathbed Visions ◽  
Near Death Experiences

The diagnosis of hallucination for unusual perceptions such as deathbed visions, near-death experiences, or visions of the bereaved, is unhelpful in palliative medicine both academically and clinically. This paper reviews the broad prevalence data about unusual perceptions in the general population as background to identifying the more narrow epidemiological source from which the much smaller focus on hallucinations seem to emerge. Major debates and limitations of current hallucination research are reviewed to show that current academic and clinical certainties are largely confined to unusual perceptions that can be readily linked to psychopathology, quite specific organic disease states and psychoactive drug use. Current state-of-the-art in hallucination studies does not warrant broad or uncritical use of this type of diagnosis in end-of-life care. Conclusions from interdisciplinary (as opposed to single discipline) hallucination studies suggest that the way forward for clinical and research work in palliative medicine may lie in a more biographical and cultural approach to unusual perceptions at the end of life.

Transitions: Exploring the Frontier

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inge B. Corless
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Life Experiences ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Death Awareness ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Deathbed Visions ◽  
Near Death Experiences

End-of-life experiences go by various terms, including near-death experiences (NDEs), deathbed visions, deathbed phenomena, deathbed coincidences, and nearing death awareness. Deathbed escorts is the term applied to the vision of deceased family members or friends who inform the dying person that they will be accompanied in the transition from life. In this article, I examine the subject of NDEs and deathbed escorts, starting with the rich body of work provided by Robert and Beatrice Kastenbaum. A subject of some interest to Robert Kastenbaum, he explored this frontier in his many writings on dying, death, and bereavement. Ever the pioneer and having made the ultimate transition, he may yet be exploring new frontiers.

Improving Spiritual Care at the End of Life by Reclaiming the Ars moriendi

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 727-743
Author(s):  
Columba Thomas ◽  
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Direct Approach ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Ars Moriendi ◽  
Current Context ◽  
Art Of Dying

Ars moriendi, or The Art of Dying, was a highly influential fifteenth-century text designed to guide dying persons and their loved ones in Catholic religious practices at a time when access to priests and the sacraments was limited. Given recent challenges related to the coronavirus pandemic, there is a heightened need to offer additional forms of guidance related to death and dying. This essay examines the content of the Ars moriendi and considers how key principles from the work apply to the current context. The Ars moriendi, in its direct approach to the salvation of souls and thoughtful treatment of struggles faced by dying persons, offers a much-needed supplement to typical approaches to death and dying today.

Epilogue

Last Acts ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 147-168
Author(s):  
Maggie Vinter
Keyword(s):  
End Of Life ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Music Video ◽  
Ars Moriendi ◽  
History Of ◽  
Capitalist State ◽  
Art Of Dying

The epilogue explores what continued relevance ars moriendi ideas have for artistic, political, and social practice. Following The Hour of Our Death, Philippe Ariès’s history of Western approaches to mortality, the notion that the art of dying is lost has become a commonplace. In this view, the end of life has been medicalized, sanitized, and monetized to the point where it can no longer be understood as a practice. Rather, it marks perhaps the final site where individuals are fully subsumed into a biopolitical and capitalist state. To complicate this narrative, the epilogue considers a number of disparate efforts to sustain an art of dying into the modern and postmodern eras, including John Donne’s preparations for death, Elizabeth Jocelin’s The Mothers Legacie to Her Unborn Childe;Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa; and “Lazarus,” the final music video David Bowie released before his death. As they echo the devotional tracts and dramas of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, these texts and artworks perpetuate arts of dying today into the present.

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