{"title":"Passionate Suffusion","authors":"P. Adams","doi":"10.1093/med/9780190945008.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190945008.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter provides the second example of an enabling frame that focuses on a different and more intimate embrace with my-death as it manifests itself in everyday markers of finitude. Finitude has emerged as a catch-all concept referring to the many ways in which individual existence is bounded and constrained by its position in time and place, by its embodiment, and by being constrained by character and perspective. This frame shares the view of the previous frame, which approaches death as intrinsic to life, but it shifts this to a far more emotional and intuitive form of connection. It explores the different ways in everyday life that we encounter the many aspects of our finitude and how this provides the basis for staying connected with my-death.","PeriodicalId":330530,"journal":{"name":"Reflecting on the Inevitable","volume":"365 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123428024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applications","authors":"Peter J. Adams","doi":"10.1093/med/9780190945008.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190945008.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter, explores ways in which the understandings of my-death developed in this book could be integrated into broader death awareness strategies. It turns first to the contribution of the death awareness movement and explores whether strategies used to promote death awareness could be extended to advancing my-death awareness. These include the death awareness movement’s use of the internet and self-help networks and professional education and training initiatives. For example, content from this book could be integrated into education sessions with health professionals. It also explores future opportunities for research and scholarship into the positive contributions of engaging with my-death.","PeriodicalId":330530,"journal":{"name":"Reflecting on the Inevitable","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128256726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"My-Death","authors":"Peter J. Adams","doi":"10.1093/med/9780190945008.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190945008.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter begins by exploring the various ways that we use features of other people’s death to make sense of my-death. This includes beliefs in various forms of life after death, projecting our experience into the minds of those who are dying, and constructing a sense of living on in some form of afterlife. It then shifts to looking critically at the appropriateness of transposing other-death onto my-death and concludes that these two aspects are very different. The chapter then moves to considering other ways of looking at my-death which do not rely on other-death and focuses specifically on understandings of my-death as total annihilation.","PeriodicalId":330530,"journal":{"name":"Reflecting on the Inevitable","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122153673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"Peter J. Adams","doi":"10.1093/med/9780190945008.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190945008.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter briefly summarizes the intent of the book as to seek out ways to engage on an ongoing basis with my-death and what it means for daily life. It finishes the book by thanking the four companions in the form of one final farewell conversation.","PeriodicalId":330530,"journal":{"name":"Reflecting on the Inevitable","volume":"150 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123217479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dialogue","authors":"Peter J. Adams","doi":"10.1093/med/9780190945008.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190945008.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter brings together the four enabling frames and reviews their relative strengths in the light of points of conflict and agreement. Points of conflict include whether life continues after death, whether death is intrinsic to the structures of life, and whether my-death represents something beyond itself. Points of agreement include improvements in the ability to think and speak about my-death, improvements in quality of life, and the positive contribution of markers of finitude to my-death awareness. This chapter’s discussion also highlights how engagement with my-death can enhance a sense of vibrancy and meaning in life.","PeriodicalId":330530,"journal":{"name":"Reflecting on the Inevitable","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115417039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Essential Structures","authors":"P. Adams","doi":"10.1093/med/9780190945008.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190945008.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter provides the first example of an enabling frame and draws on Martin Heidegger’s seminal work on personal mortality in his writings on the concepts of Being, time and finitude. The discussion focuses particularly on his interpretation of personal mortality, or being-toward-death, as an integral part of what structures individual existence. As such, talk about existence after death becomes nonsensical because death is tightly bound to what it means to be alive. The discussion also introduces Heidegger’s understanding of finitude and its relationship to my-death. His concept of finitude will be developed in a different way in the next chapter.","PeriodicalId":330530,"journal":{"name":"Reflecting on the Inevitable","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122321846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}