Objective: Some patients receive genome therapy for cancer for which there is no standard treatment, or the standard treatment has been completed making them aware of death. This study identifies the ...relationship between nursing care for such patients and the "nurses' views of life and death" required to provide nursing care. Methods: A questionnaire survey targeting 91 nurses caring for cancer patients was conducted to perform an exploratory factor analysis of factors of "nursing care for patients receiving cancer genome therapy." Multiple regression analysis used these factors as dependent variables and "nurses' views of life and death" as an independent variable. Results: Five factors and 38 items were abstracted for "nursing care for patients receiving cancer genome therapy," and "nurses' views of life and death" was demonstrated to have influenced these factors. Conclusions: "Nursing care for patients receiving cancer genome therapy" was characterized by factors which targeted patients suffering from a disease that makes them aware of death, and "nurses' views of life and death" influenced these factors, suggesting the need for nurses to establish their views on life and death in cancer genome medical care.
Doctrinal reasoning, the practice of chanting nam-myōho-renge-kyō and its vision for kōsen-rufu has been how Sōka Gakkai (SG) promulgated Nichiren Buddhism. This paper explores, in an in-depth ...anthropological manner, how doctrinal issues matter significantly in the meaning of funeral practices in contemporary SG. So-called Friend Funerals have become widely common and demonstrate how SG members’ understanding of death and mortuary rites differ in some significant ways from common practices in Japan. To understand why specific funeral rituals are not in and of themselves considered of primary importance when a person dies in SG, this paper discusses its reading of key tenants of Nichiren Buddhism. What hotoke or buddha means is commonly seen in Japan as something achieved upon death facilitated by specific funeral rites. How such views fundamentally differ in SG is explored here based on long-term fieldwork and participant observation, as well as interviews and review of its doctrine. The research suggests that SG members engage in a cross-generational endeavour for kōsen-rufu where personal actions—what could be described as the ‘political’ existence of this life—matters but in a non-dualistic way as this simultaneously becomes the sphere that ‘transcends’ that contemporary existence. How one views death is not only seen as something relevant at the end of life, nor only to those remaining, but is taken as a reality that becomes the impetus for giving deeper meaning to how one acts in daily life as part of a cross-generational movement.
Chinese traditional life culture, based on the unity of life and death, has a set of cultural narrative of 'Peace' at the end of life. In terms of the fundamental concept, it argues that 'Death' is ...more important than 'Health care', and 'Good death' is the pursuit of human happiness. In terms of the strategic path, it advocates to abide by the 'Etiquette system' and specially designs a set of deathbed etiquette to help people reach a 'Good end'. In terms of the goal value, it states that 'Knowing life' helps 'Knowing death' and living well can lead to dying well, thus realizing the immortality of life value. In terms of spiritual beliefs, it emphasizes the acceptance of 'Life and death are destined', and transforms 'Life limit' into 'Mission', thus sublimating the recognition of 'Destiny' and accepting death in the belief that 'Life never ends'.
Live and Let Die Filho, Lucio Reis
Extrapolation,
03/2022, Volume:
63, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Many horror film tropes converged with the COVID-19 global health emergency. News media coverage of the pandemic has daily evoked several tropes of one horror film subgenre in particular--zombie ...films--such as unexplainable disease, lab-leak conspiracies, the silence or denial of authorities, political disarticulation, the buzz of the media, increasing mortality rates, the collapse of healthcare systems, and urban landscapes as eerily empty spaces. Arguably, the undead character at the heart of zombie films provides a critique of late capitalism, and of the social issues that we have seen highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic, such as the stigma of the infected, the deepening of social inequalities, and the challenges of quarantine and the segregation inherent to it. In this paper, we intend to analyze the zombie film subgenre in the light of three leading concepts: Mary Douglas's archetype of dirt, Byung-Chul Han's immunological paradigm, and Achille Mbembe's notion of necropolitics, the latter being related to the ultimate expression of sovereignty--the power and the ability to decide who lives and who may die.
Masochism is central to all pathologies and its relevance in clinical practise cannot be underestimated. The initial connection made by Freud was that masochism was a component or partial instinct, ...still operating within the pleasure principle. The relationship between masochism and the theory of drives marks a main theoretical difference in the different authors' explorations of this subject. The understanding of what is meant by 'masochism' gained complexity following Freud's postulation of a life and death drive (which is more or less contemporary with his 1924 paper on masochism) and the differences made by him between 'primary' and 'secondary' masochism. This introduction to the papers presented in this section will address some of these differences, as well as exploring the notions of primary erotogenic masochism, feminine and moral masochism. It will also look at the notion of binding /unbinding of the life/death drives, and the role of the superego. It will introduce the different papers by Novick and Novick, Bourdin, Frank and Persano on developmental perspectives, primary masochism, views on French analysts such as Benno Rosenberg and on Kleinian ideas on the subject as well as on the role of the body, pain and self harm.
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This study examined transition to a plant-based diet by young adults and the challenges and conflicts this brings. Interviews were conducted with nine young adults in Sweden and the answers were ...analysed guided by a psychological method from descriptive phenomenology. The results indicate that the transition to a plant-based diet is a process comprising five dimensions: 1) Exploring new ways of living based on health anxieties, 2) regulating conflicting emotions through differentiation, 3) transforming traditional models into new alternatives, 4) confirming new skills and abilities and 5) integrating experiences and emotions into a whole. These five dimensions reflect how transition to a plant-based diet is experienced physically and emotionally. The results also indicate that plant-based meals and ingredients used in the new diet are loaded with symbols and conflicting emotions. Psychoanalytically informed theory, especially object relation theory, was used in discussing what can happen to the mind during the transition. In a wider perspective, this study provides insights into how a dietary transition can bring stability to the life of young adults and help them endure and master their situation. More research is needed to assess the role of mental health in transitioning to a plant-based diet and to draw more general conclusions, an area where psychodynamic theory can provide insights.
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本研究は，‘Death Education’においてEyzaguirre (2006) が提唱した説を基に，「生と死の教育」におけるTeachable Moment ...Processの4つの構成要素の内容を検討することを目的とした。具体的には，研究1は小5児童（N＝130）を対象に「いのち」に対する認識のきっかけ，研究2は小5―中3の児童生徒（N＝1,048）を対象に「いのちの認識尺度」の作成，研究3は小・中学校教師（N＝169）を対象に「生と死の教育」への期待感等をそれぞれ検証した。その結果，構成要素の第1番目「学習者の生活における重大な出来事」は死生体験，マスメディア等であり，第2番目「出来事への学習者の興味と成長へのレディネス」へと繫がる可能性が推察された。第3番目「対応する教師の資質・能力」では約6割の教師が「生と死の教育」に対し積極的な気持ちを抱いていることが推察され，第4番目「教師による実際の自発的な対応」では8割以上の教師が何らかの対応をしていることが認められたが，その背後に多様な考え方があることが推察された。これらにより，Teachable Moment Process の成立について一定の可能性と幾つかの課題が示唆された。
A pandemic's reach is broad, deep, layered-both as an infectious agent and as the psychological force that will be explored by the author in this paper. The disorder it creates and the sorrow it ...leaves in its wake can be found in traces of its existence that remain in written works generated in the time after the pandemic is thought to be over. The author draws from creative texts by imaginative writers and Freud written in the period after the 1918-1920 pandemic. This paper is intended to create an experience in reading that introduces ways in which we can look for the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic in our own writing.
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The urban cemetery is the material carrier of citizens' view of life and death, and it also evolves with time as a special part of the urban form. Since the reform of the housing system in the 1990s, ...China has entered a period of rapid urbanization, and the urban cemeteries has entered a cycle of shock and accelerated transformation. The cemeteries originally located on the urban fringe were gradually surrounded by new built-up areas as the city sprawled, and then most of them inevitably migrated outward under the pressure of urban population explosion and land shortage. Taking Nanjing as an example, this paper presents the morphological evolution of Nanjing's urban cemetery since the early 20th century, discusses the relationship between the evolution of the cemetery and the urban fringe belt, and analyzes the reasons for its evolution. The different types of morphological evolution of Nanjing cemetery are further summarized, revealing the general law and its Chinese particularity. The article concludes with a discussion of the value and significance of morphological research on urban cemeteries in China.
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