An Inquiry of Autobiographical Narratives About the View of Life and Death Experience of a Middle-aged Woman’s Life

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 115-128
Author(s):  
Sunah Kim
Keyword(s):  
Autobiographical Narratives ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Death Experience

scholarly journals “IT’S BETTER WHEN IT’S DONE FOR EVERYONE”: THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE SOCIAL IN THE COMPREHENSION OF DEATH IN L. YA. GINSBURG’S NOTES OF THE 1920–1940s

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 127-135
Author(s):  
Svetlana Yu. Malysheva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Autobiographical Narratives ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
Soviet History ◽  
The Social ◽  
Russian Literary ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
The Individual

The article considers how during the 1920–1940s the problems of death, finality of human existence, immortality, postmortem ritual, guilt and repentance were thought through and developed by the outstanding Russian literary critic and thinker L. Yа. Ginzburg in the interesting and peculiar forms of ego-documents. The borderline nature of genre of her notes and autobiographical “narratives” — between ego-documents and literature — have led to a close interweaving in her reflections of personal, social and historical experience, as well as the intellectual tradition of thinking about the finitude of life and contributed to the creation of an original author’s system of ideas about death. The article shows the stages of formation of these perceptions correlated with the aspects of death actualized in this or that period of Soviet history in the 1920–1940s. From the reflection of the mid-1920s on the “lightness” and unremarkableness of death, a reverse side of the devaluation of life, Ginzburg came in the second half of the 1930s to the necessity of conceptual thinking about death, without which understanding the meaning of life was impossible. Experience of the war and blockade fills this reflection with an understanding of the nature of heroism and heroic death (as the only possible freedom in conditions of unfreedom of war), of the mechanisms of the work of grief, guilt and remorse as a tragic near-death experience in the event of loss of loved ones. The understanding of death, imbued with humanism and sociality, with a sense of experience of common human connections, has become an essential part of Ginzburg’s concept of human life in the postindividualist era.

scholarly journals “What is worse than death?”: experience of critical events among physicians

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (111) ◽  
pp. 2-11
Author(s):  
Dalia Antinienė ◽  
Žydrūnė Kaklauskaitė
Keyword(s):  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Critical Event ◽  
Critical Events ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
Emotional Strain ◽  
Qualitative Part

Background. It is noticeable that doctors’ avoidant behavior while dealing with emotional consequences of critical events not only lowers physician’s quality of sleep (Kahn, Sheppes, & Sadeh, 2013), brings them less satisfaction with the results of their work (Gleichgerrcht & Decety, 2013), but also worsens medical care as they provide poorer services related to the patient (Austin Saylor, & Finley, 2017; Meier, Back, & Morrison, 2001). The lack of scientific publications shows that this topic is underresearched and relevant. The purpose of the study is to reveal physicians’ experience of critical events. Methods. Five practicing physicians of anesthesiology-reanimatology and surgery participated in the qualitative part of the research. The data was collected using semi-structured interview and processed using inductive thematic Braun & Clarke (2006) analysis. Results. Qualitative analysis revealed the complicated experiences in a physician’s workplace, which doctors described as: taking responsibilities in the presence of a patient’s death, the risk of burnout and negative emotions experienced after a critical event. The analysis also emerged techniques used in dealing with emotions after critical events and consequences of the latter in one’s personal life. Conclusions. The study revealed that physicians in their work environment come across difficulties such as risk of burnout, balancing between formal and informal communication with patients and emotional strain which is caused by facing a patient’s death. Doctors tend to cope with negative emotions that emerge during critical events using various methods, but the most elucidated technique was the avoidance to deal with emotions. Analysis also revealed that experiences, gained through medics’ work, modify their attitude towards life and death and change the emotional connection between a physician and his relatives.

scholarly journals The lived experience of late midlife hemodialysis patients with diabetic nephropathy

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 32
Author(s):  
Hui-Man Huang ◽  
Ting-Ju Lin ◽  
Lee-Jen Wu Suen
Keyword(s):  
Diabetic Nephropathy ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Aged Patients ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Physical Suffering

Background: Diabetic nephropathy is the primary reason that patients receive hemodialysis (HD), a frequent and lifelong treatment. However, HD is burdensome for middle–aged individuals, who still have personal and professional responsibilities, and can have a significant and disruptive impact on their lives.Aim: This study seeks to better understand the daily life experiences of middle-aged patients with diabetic nephropathy who are receiving HD.Methods: This qualitative study used purposive sampling to recruit participants from a teaching hospital in southern Taiwan from November 2014 to May 2015. The data was collected through in-depth interviews from 12 middle-aged diabetic nephropathy patients receiving HD. Data analysis was performed using Colaizzi’s phenomenological method.Results: The significant statements were categorized into four themes and 10 subthemes: (1) Mental and physical suffering: shock and refusing HD, loss of control in certain aspects of life, burdened with complications from diabetes and HD conditions. (2) Social isolation: barriers to normal life and leisure activities, financial hardship resulting in reduced self-esteem. (3) Moving toward a new adjusted lifestyle: acknowledging illness and accepting HD, changing their perspective towards HD, learning to improve their own health, and (4) End-of-life evaluation: appreciation of life and death, coming to terms with mortality, and increased time spent with their families.Conclusions: The findings of this study showed that middle-aged patients receiving HD typically underwent a process of mental and physical suffering to adaptation and end-of-life reflection. These findings can help health care providers and family members better understand the experiences and hardships of patients receiving HD, which allows for better support and improved nursing care.

The wisdom of experience: Autobiographical narratives across adulthood

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 197-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith GlüCk ◽  
Susan Bluck ◽  
Jacqueline Baron ◽  
Dan P. Mcadams
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Implicit Theories ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Autobiographical Narratives ◽  
Positive Experience ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Life Decisions

This research uses an autobiographical approach to examine the relation of age to several aspects of wisdom. In Study 1 (N 1/4 86), adolescents', young adults', and older adults' wisdom narratives were content-coded for the types of life situations mentioned and the forms that wisdom took. Types of life situations reported (e.g., life decisions) were the same across age groups. Three different forms of wisdom emerged (empathy and support; self-determination and assertion; balance and flexibility) and their frequency differed with age. In Study 2, middle-aged and older adults' (N 1/4 51) autobiographical wisdom narratives were also analysed for type of situation and form of wisdom, but with the addition of two comparison life events: being foolish and having a very positive experience. Most findings replicated Study 1. Unlike Study 1, however, regardless of age, Study 2 participants largely showed the wisdom form, empathy and support. Results are discussed in terms of variations in individuals' implicit theories of wisdom as applied to their own lives.

The New Face of Death: Postmodernity and Changing Perspectives of the Afterlife

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond L. M. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Buddhism ◽  
Fear Of Death ◽  
Death Process ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Near Death Experience

Reflections on the near-death experience, the bardo teachings in Tibetan Buddhism, and the relationship between dying and dreaming have made possible many new insights into the death process. The postmodern context in which this knowledge is being disseminated provides an environment conducive to understanding the meaning of self-transformation in life and death. These developments suggest that the denial and fear of death have been an unnecessary distraction in the unfolding of human consciousness.

Marathon: A Life-and-Death Experience

1984 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Hoag ◽  
Matthew Gissen
Keyword(s):  
Life And Death ◽  
Death Experience

The Relationship of Sex-Role Orientation to Death Anxiety in Middle-Aged Males

1984 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 355-367 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann M. Downey
Keyword(s):  
Death Anxiety ◽  
Sex Role ◽  
Control Variable ◽  
Role Orientation ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Sex Role Orientation ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
Nonprobability Sample ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study was to determine how sex-role orientation was related to death anxiety among a group of middle-aged males. A nonprobability sample of 237 male volunteers between the ages of forty and fifty-nine, of whom 88.7 percent were engaged in professional occupations, completed the Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI) and Boyar's Fear of Death Scale (FODS). In addition, “death experience” was measured by three items and was employed as a control variable in determining the relationship between sex-role orientation and death anxiety. Results of this investigation indicated that “death experience” or the amount of contact the male has had with death was not related to death anxiety. Additionally, those middle-aged males with a traditional male sex-role orientation (high masculinity/low femininity) did not exhibit higher death anxiety scores than those males with an androgynous orientation (high masculinity/high femininity) as was predicted. Thus, in this sample of professional middle-aged males, the men with a traditional sex-role orientation did not differ from those males who were androgynous with respect to death anxiety levels.

scholarly journals LIVING LEARNING FROM NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 564
Author(s):  
Mārtiņš Veide
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Clinical Death ◽  
Personality Change ◽  
Intuitive Knowledge ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Near Death Experience

The main aim of the article is to clarify what changes a near death experience (NDE) brings in the living learning process of an adult and in his attitude towards it. The existential experience, and the perceptions about life and death are considered as important self-realization and development factors in the learning process. Although currently there is no single scientific position with respect to NDE, the inner experience of the humans who have survived clinical death and as a result of that had personality change cannot be denied. In the context of pedagogy according to the phenomenological scientific methodological tradition NDE gives its contribution both in the procedure of cognition and in the field of the cognizable facts. In order to identify the relationship between NDE and living learning, in-depth interviews were conducted with 5 people who have experienced clinical death. The results of the interviews allow to identify several common change categories of the attitude and understanding related to living learning. These include the examination of one’s own way of existence, understanding of the unity of all existing, the appearance of a deeper sense of responsibility, new interests and the related intuitive knowledge, the change of attitude towards knowledge, religion and self-knowledge.

scholarly journals Life and Death Ethoses in the Short Story The Mystery of Foreseen Death by Aleksandr Grin: Imaginative Apophatic Reality

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-33
Author(s):  
M. A. Dudareva ◽  
N. Z. Koltsova
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Rudolf Steiner ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Hermeneutic Approach ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
History Of ◽  
Russian Intelligentsia ◽  
Ontological Dimension ◽  
Insight Into

The paper is dedicated to the issue of the apophatic component of artistic culture associated with Thanatos that is developed in the literature oeuvre of Aleksandr Grin. Setting Grin’s short story The Mystery of Foreseen Death as the research object, this texts seeks to provide insight into the image of death and the examination of its spiritual and material manifestations that reflected the logocentric approach that was then popular among the Russian thinkers. To pursue this aim, the methodology of this study should allow identifying the ontological perspective of Grin’s story. Thus, the methodological foundations embrace the onto-hermeneutic approach to the analysis of literary work. In revealing the ontological dimension of the story much attention is paid to the ethos of life and death, the protagonist’s artistic imaginative experience of reality. In the story under study death is ambivalent: it is bodily, anthropological, as indicated by the repetitive image of neck on the execution block. At the same time, it is apophatic, as indicated by the darkened end of the story, the bewilderment of skeptical scientists that arose because of the main event of the story, namely the protagonist’s execution. In this regard, it appears to be effective to consider the anthroposophical thought of Rudolf Steiner that was absorbed by a large part of Russian intelligentsia at the beginning of the 20th century. This doctrine stresses the reflections on a person’s experience of death in reality. The imaginative aspect of anthroposophism was developed by Grin’s close friend, a neighbor in Crimean Cimmeria, Maximilian Voloshin, a disciple of the teachings of Steiner. The conclusions that can be drawn from the study are as follows: Grin’s story presents a detailed imaginative death experience, which makes it possible to raise the issue of it being part of the broader anthroposophical teaching. The Mystery of Foreseen Death indirectly expresses the Steinerian ideas and at the same time it fits into the framework of the Russian apophatic artistic tradition. The article also raises the issue of the apophatic component of Russian artistic culture, the thanatological experience of which can help in overcoming crisis situations nowadays. The findings of the research, in this way, can have an effect on better understanding in several fields: in literature studies (philology), in the history of Russian literature, in cultural studies and in philosophy.

The Concept of Death and the Growth of Death Awareness Among University Students in Hong Kong

2016 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 304-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wai-ying Wong
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
University Students ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Death Education ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Attitudes Toward Death ◽  
Current State ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Education Courses

This study examined the concept of and attitudes toward death of university students and evaluated the efficacy of the death education courses offered by different universities in Hong Kong. The study adopted a pretreatment and posttreatment comparison approach in assessing the efficacy of the courses. The same set of instruments, Death Attitude Profile-Revised and Semantic Differential Ratings of Life and Death, measuring students' views of and attitudes toward death were administered to the students twice, once at the start of the courses and another at the end. Results of the pretreatment survey also served to depict the current state of students' views and attitudes. The target students comprised two groups: those taking the relevant courses and those not; this latter group served as a comparison group in assessing the treatment group's behavior. The achieved sample included 368 students who responded to both the pre- and posttreatment surveys, of which 134 had attended the relevant courses. The results indicated that the students had a more negative views on death as compared with that of life. Findings also suggested that the death education courses had significant and positive impact on the students, that is, viewing death more positively than before, having less fear and avoidance confronting death. However, the impact differed depending on the gender as well as death experience of the student.

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