告别仪式:老年人如何实践死亡和丧亲
Hans-Georg Eilenberger1,2, Marjolein de Boer2
1University of Humanistic Studies, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Human studies
|October 13, 2025
概括
老年人通过独特的"告别仪式"来驾死亡. 这些做法包括定时告别,与亲人交流,拥抱失踪,为衰老和失去提供新的视角.
科学领域:
- 老年学是指老年学的学科.
- 存在心理学的心理学
- 死亡和死亡的社会学.
背景情况:
- 晚年生活的特点是损失越来越大,老年人面临死亡率.
- 从累积的损失中产生的独特的生存视角仍然没有得到充分的研究.
- 了解晚年生活中的创造意义的实践对于解决生命终结问题至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 探索和分析老年人关于死亡和丧亲的日常意义上的做法.
- 识别和概念化老年人用来应对死亡和损失的不同做法.
- 将经验发现与对生命终结体验的哲学见解相结合.
主要方法:
- 对16名65-93岁的参与者进行定性采访研究.
- 分析与死亡和丧亲相关的日常习惯.
- 在西蒙·德·博沃瓦的作品中绘制的哲学反思.
主要成果:
- 确定了三个不同的创造意义的实践:定时,交流和失踪.
- 他将这些做法概念化为"告别仪式",并与西蒙娜·德·博沃瓦 (Simone de Beauvoir) 的观察进行了平行.
- 展示了这些做法是如何帮助老年人应对死亡的.
结论:
- "告别仪式"提供了一个框架来理解老年人如何理解死亡和丧亲.
- 这项研究突出了自我和他人在以后生活的存在体验中交织在一起的观点.
- 这项研究提供了关于死亡和晚年死亡的综合观点,强调了积极的应对机制.
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