Death and beyond: Thoughts and preparations for the final journey
Based on extensive ethnography, this article investigates how contemporary Finnish hospice patients talk - or remain silent - about their own approaching death, and the imageries relating to death and the possible afterlife. I explore how the thought of an afterlife may have informed patients’ orien...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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Approaching religion
Year: 2023, Volume: 13, Issue: 1, Pages: 5-20 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Finland
/ Hospice (Inn)
/ Patient
/ Death
/ Hereafter
/ Funeral
/ Imagery
/ Das Irreale
/ Metaphor
/ History 2014-2017
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion KBE Northern Europe; Scandinavia NBE Anthropology TK Recent history ZD Psychology |
| Further subjects: | B
Afterlife
B Funerals B Ritual B Death B metaphysical imagination |
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