Springtime on the Prairie

2020 ◽  
pp. 47-58
Author(s):  
Zachary Michael Jack
Keyword(s):  
Death And Dying ◽  
Naturalized Citizens ◽  
University Of Notre Dame

This chapter describes springtime on the prairie. Canadian geese ply flyways, check ancestral routes against hard memories, against ribbons of rivers. They herald the season, trumpeting the first push of Gulf air. Those who do not live to see first thaw keep the funeral parlors busy. The chapter then talks about the arrival of monks, émigrés come from out of state to tend the monastery's hardwood groves. The monks have become naturalized citizens of a state that specializes in death and dying. For a price, the monks of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance are pleased to offer an exclusive line of custom-designed caskets and urns for University of Notre Dame alumni and their families.

Media Psychology and Complex Modes of Entertainment Experiences

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Klimmt
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Terror Management Theory ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Terror Management ◽  
Media Psychology ◽  
Mixed Emotions ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Complex Modes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Media Enjoyment

This comment briefly examines the history of entertainment research in media psychology and welcomes the conceptual innovations in the contribution by Oliver and Bartsch (this issue). Theoretical perspectives for improving and expanding the “appreciation” concept in entertainment psychology are outlined. These refer to more systematic links of appreciation to the psychology of mixed emotions, to positive psychology, and to the psychology of death and dying – in particular, to terror management theory. In addition, methodological challenges are discussed that entertainment research faces when appreciation and the experience of “meaning for life” need to be addressed in empirical studies of media enjoyment.

Review of Death and Dying: Life and Living.

1994 ◽  
Vol 39 (9) ◽  
pp. 914-914
Author(s):  
Terri Gullickson
Keyword(s):  
Death And Dying

Needs, Perceptions, and Availability of Resources in the Area of Pediatric Grief, Death, and Dying

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth A. Barber ◽  
Charity Plaxton-Hennings ◽  
Holli M. H. Eaton ◽  
Sheryn T. Scott
Keyword(s):  
Death And Dying

Death and dying

2002 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 89-103
Author(s):  
M. Towsley M. Towsley Cook ◽  
A. A. Young
Keyword(s):  
Death And Dying

Review Essay: On Death and Dying

1967 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gwynn Nettler
Keyword(s):  
Review Essay ◽  
Death And Dying

Communicative practices in talking about death and dying in the context of Thai cancer care

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-271
Author(s):  
Pairote Wilainuch
Keyword(s):  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
District Hospital ◽  
Death And Dying ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Religious Support ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Health Centres ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Thai People ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article explores communicative practices surrounding how nurses, patients and family members engage when talking about death and dying, based on study conducted in a province in northern Thailand. Data were collected from three environments: a district hospital (nine cases), district public health centres (four cases), and in patients’ homes (27 cases). Fourteen nurses, 40 patients and 24 family members gave written consent for participation. Direct observation and in-depth interviews were used for supplementary data collection, and 40 counselling sessions were recorded on video. The raw data were analysed using Conversation Analysis. The study found that Thai counselling is asymmetrical. Nurses initiated the topic of death by referring to the death of a third person – a dead patient – with the use of clues and via list-construction. As most Thai people are oriented to Buddhism, religious support is selected for discussing this sensitive topic, and nurses also use Buddhism and list-construction to help their clients confront uncertain futures. However, Buddhism is not brought into discussion on its own, but combined with other techniques such as the use of euphemisms or concern and care for others.

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