Education for death and dying for a full life: Learning to die to learn to live
Death is an event that comes to us, by natural order or not, unfailingly at the end of our life. This may sound like a truism, but it is the only certainty we really have. Not all cultures confront, officiate, commemorate or psychosocially represent death in the same way and, consequently, neither a...
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| description | Death is an event that comes to us, by natural order or not, unfailingly at the end of our life. This may sound like a truism, but it is the only certainty we really have. Not all cultures confront, officiate, commemorate or psychosocially represent death in the same way and, consequently, neither all people go through the same grief, nor do they have the same attitudes, thoughts and feelings towards the matter. In our society, death is a taboo subject and constitutes one of the most significant and important sources of anguish. This work presents a study carried out on a sample of people of legal age (n = 200), distributed over five age ranges, to try to determine the life stage, if any, in which one goes from fearing death to accept it. Do we learn to die in the last moments of life or, perhaps, not even then? In this sense, a self-elaborated questionnaire has been used, the items of which are related to the type of thoughts towards death, the qualms about talking about it, the fear to the loved ones death, of dying alone, of loss, to the sudden death, the anxiety about the subject, etc. Finally, a mention is made on the education for death as a tool to assume and accept it, with the aim of leading a full life and full psychosocial well-being. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e22f79de292445e0a3afe6010eb1cb122023-01-02T20:52:15ZengAsociación Nacional de Psicología Evolutiva y Educativa de la Infancia Adolescencia Mayores y DiscapacidadINFAD0214-98772603-59872020-06-012135937010.17060/ijodaep.2020.n1.v2.18481507Education for death and dying for a full life: Learning to die to learn to liveMarta Domínguez Martínez0Ana Isabel Isidro de Pedro1Universidad de SalamancaUniversidad de SalamancaDeath is an event that comes to us, by natural order or not, unfailingly at the end of our life. This may sound like a truism, but it is the only certainty we really have. Not all cultures confront, officiate, commemorate or psychosocially represent death in the same way and, consequently, neither all people go through the same grief, nor do they have the same attitudes, thoughts and feelings towards the matter. In our society, death is a taboo subject and constitutes one of the most significant and important sources of anguish. This work presents a study carried out on a sample of people of legal age (n = 200), distributed over five age ranges, to try to determine the life stage, if any, in which one goes from fearing death to accept it. Do we learn to die in the last moments of life or, perhaps, not even then? In this sense, a self-elaborated questionnaire has been used, the items of which are related to the type of thoughts towards death, the qualms about talking about it, the fear to the loved ones death, of dying alone, of loss, to the sudden death, the anxiety about the subject, etc. Finally, a mention is made on the education for death as a tool to assume and accept it, with the aim of leading a full life and full psychosocial well-being.http://www.infad.eu/RevistaINFAD/OJS/index.php/IJODAEP/article/view/1848muerteenvejecimientoaceptacióneducación para la muerte |
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| title | Education for death and dying for a full life: Learning to die to learn to live |
| title_full | Education for death and dying for a full life: Learning to die to learn to live |
| title_fullStr | Education for death and dying for a full life: Learning to die to learn to live |
| title_full_unstemmed | Education for death and dying for a full life: Learning to die to learn to live |
| title_short | Education for death and dying for a full life: Learning to die to learn to live |
| title_sort | education for death and dying for a full life learning to die to learn to live |
| topic | muerte envejecimiento aceptación educación para la muerte |
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