"Hun forsvinder ikke" - et kvalitativt studie af döende patienters og pårörendes overvejelser om en fortsat relation efter döden
Engelsk titel: "She doesn’t disappear"- a qualitative study of dying patients’ and relatives’ considerations about a continuing relationship after death
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Författare:
Moestrup, Lene
;
Hvidt, Niels Christian
;
Ploug Hansen, Helle
Email: lmoestrup@health.sdu.dk
Språk: Dan
Antal referenser: 36
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 15011245
Sammanfattning
Research shows that relationships with other people constitute a significant source of meaning
in life, both among people in general as well as among palliative patients. In this study
we explored how dying patients in a hospice and their next of kin construct stories about their
continuing relationships after death. Through a narrative-inspired analysis of interviews and
informal conversations held during field observation it is demonstrated that the participants’
stories encompass two categories of ongoing contact: "meeting places" and "ways to meet".
Regardless of their existential or spiritual orientation, the participants constructed stories
about their relationships in which the dying patient did not disappear with death. It thus seems
that an ongoing relationship - in a secular or spiritual way - can be maintained. These stories
contributed to create new meaning in the relationship between patients and relatives, in their
lives and perhaps after death.