Death and dying in contemporary society: an evaluation of current attitudes and the rituals associated with death and dying and their relevance to recent understandings of health and healing. J Adv Nurs 1998;27:
Studying death in different cultures offers you a unique way to learn about respective cultures as well as the chance to reflect on your own. For example, if you’re from the US, you might want to learn how Japanese people treat death and dying. Just a little bit of research will ...
Death in the Middle East Denial and Celebration in North America Death and Dying in Oceana But what about other ways of grieving? From chopping the deceased into pieces on a mountaintop to dancing with corpses, this guide gives you a brief overview of death cultures around the world. ...
The Lugbara deathbed scene shows compassion for the dying person and concern for the well-being of the community. Nevertheless, it is a tense occasion because a bad death can leave the survivors vulnerable to the forces of evil. In many other world cultures the passage from life to death ...
How Different Cultures React to Death and Dying Instead, they believe the body must be cremated quickly after death. As Lama (2004, p. 1) maintains, “The belief that once it sheds its body, the soul prepares to depart immediately on its karmic journey, and as such, it’s very importa...
Dr. Candi Cann is a scholar and public intellectual who specializes in the fields of death, dying, and grief. Dr. Cann has written several books and articles on these topics and participated in many interviews and webinars. She is available for speeches
Personal and yet utterly universal, inevitable and yet unknowable, death has been a dominant theme in all cultures, since earliest times. Different societies address death and the act of dying in culturally diverse ways; yet, remarkably, across the span of several millennia, we can recognize in...
Killing.Every death system has norms that indicate when, how, and for what reasons individuals or other living creatures can be killed. There are international treaties that define what weapons and what killings are justifiable in war. Different cultures determine the crimes an individual can be ex...
The work of mourning, as Annette Weiner calls it, involves months of public mourning and the exchange of valuable goods such as yams and bundles. In order to understand the rituals, an understanding of the individual roles must first be reached. The first of two main players are the To...
Death is the irreversible end of all vital functions, and dying is the final stage of life. Throughout the world, every culture, religion, and society has its own rituals, beliefs, and practices around death and dying. By exploring death and dying in greater detail, we grow more comfortable...