继续做梦:临终行为与浪漫个人主义精神

IF 1.7 Q2 SOCIOLOGY
G. Metzger
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在过去的二十年中,最近由于COVID-19大流行,人们对研究各个研究领域中与死亡和死亡相关的主题越来越感兴趣。研究已经开始更详细地探索当代西方社会中非宗教人士的死亡和丧亲之痛。现在已经确定,这个庞大的社会群体找到了自己有意义的方式来面对悲伤、失去和有限。然而,这些研究通常不包括那些患有危及生命的疾病和面临死亡的人的观点。在瑞士接受姑息治疗的患者中进行了一年半的人种学研究,本研究探讨了非宗教取向和人类存在的其他方面如何影响死亡时的情绪和意义。一个无神论者的例子就是一个例子,我从所有的实地考察中挑选了一个无神论者,以阐明与绝症患者生活的细微差别和复杂性。研究发现,世俗和个人主义的价值观使人很难找到解脱和接受死亡。与此同时,研究结果表明,对世界观的世俗特征的认同可以通过确保行为的永恒性和死亡的意义创造习惯来增加幸福感。此外,本文还研究了对死亡和死亡的态度与时间和生活状况的关系。
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Dreaming On: Dying Behaviour and the Romantic-Individualist Ethos
Over the last two decades and, most recently because of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a growing interest in studying topics related to dying and death in various fields of research. Research has started to explore, in more detail, death and bereavement among nonreligious people in contemporary Western societies. It is now well established that this large social group finds its own meaningful ways to come to terms with grief, loss and finitude. However, these studies typically do not include the perspectives of those living with life-threatening illness and facing death. Drawing on one and a half years of ethnographic research conducted among patients receiving palliative care in Switzerland, this study explores how a nonreligious orientation and other facets of human existence influence emotions and meaning making while dying. This is exemplified by the case of an atheist who I picked from the totality of fieldwork encounters in order to illuminate the nuances and complexities of living with terminal illness. The study found that secular and individualist values make it difficult to find closure and accept death. At the same time, the results show that the identification with the secular features of a worldview can increase well-being by ensuring a sense of permanence in actions and meaning-making habits in dying. Furthermore, this article makes the case for studying attitudes towards dying and death in relation to time and life situation.
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