“I can’t explain it”: An examination of social convoys and after death communication narratives

Stemen, Sara E

doi:10.1080/07481187.2020.1825296

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“…Second, at present, healthcare services in China are mainly focused on the treatment and care of patients, without sufficient attention to the bereavement care of family members. Previous studies indicated that experiencing death through near-death experiences or other ways and extending mourning care to people who have lost relatives and friends helps people carry out “After-Death Communication”(ADC) ( 35 ). These activities promote subjects to change from fear of death to peace as well as from anxiety of death to peace.…”

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Exploring the needs and barriers for death education in China: Getting answers from heart transplant recipients' inner experience of death

Shu

Miao²,

Feng³

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundPromoting reflection about death may support better living, and how to carry out death education is an important issue to be addressed across the world. The purpose of the current study was to explore the attitude of heart transplant recipients toward death and their inner real experience to provide information for the development of death education strategies.MethodsA phenomenological qualitative study was conducted using a snowball method. A total of 11 patients who had undergone heart transplantation more than 1-year ago were recruited for the current study for semi-structured interviews.ResultsA total of five themes were identified: “Not avoid talking about death,” “Feeling fear about the pain in the process of death”, “Wanting a good death at the end of life,” “The richness of feelings during near-death is surprising,” and “Being close to death makes people more receptive to death.”ConclusionHeart transplant recipients have a positive attitude toward death and wish for “good death” at the end of life. These patients' near-death experiences and positive attitudes toward death during the course of their illness provided evidence of the need for death education in China and supported the experiential approach to death education.

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Exploring the needs and barriers for death education in China: Getting answers from heart transplant recipients' inner experience of death

Shu

Miao²,

Feng³

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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“…For a variety of reasons, it has not yet appeared in the peer-reviewed literature. Nevertheless, its publication now-a decade later-remains timely: It is based on all published studies of ADC through 2010-and since that time, although ADC research publications addressing various phenomenological aspects of ADC have recently proliferated (Elsaesser et al, 2021;Holden et al, 2019;Penberthy et al, 2021;Stemen, 2022), and two additional quantitative studies have addressed incidence of ADC phenomena among specialized populations-the suicide bereaved (Jahn & Spencer-Thomas, 2014) and the Australian Muslim bereaved (Ata, 2016)-no published study has addressed incidence in populations at large. Furthermore, since 2011, the professional literature contains only one "critical review of population and clinical studies" (Castelnovo et al, 2015); however, the authors considered only nine published studies-compared to our 35-and addressed methodological issues but, unlike us, did not consider the studies' relative methodological strengths and weaknesses when drawing conclusions.…”

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Empirically-Based Best Estimates of After-Death Communication (ADC) Phenomena: A Systematic Review of the Research

Streit-Horn,

Miner Holden,

Smith

2022

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In after-death communication (ADC), a living person perceives the presence of a physically deceased person or animal. To date, estimates of ADCrelated phenomena have been based on single studies or clinical observation. For this study, we conducted a systematic review of all quantitative descriptive studies of ADC we could find published through 2010. We found 35 studies, analyzed their methodological quality to rank them from best to worst, and used the methodologically strongest studies to arrive at best-estimates of ADC phenomena. For example, results indicated that, regarding prevalence, 30-35% of people report at least one ADC sometime in their lives and, regarding incidence, 70-80% of bereaved people report one or more ADC experiences within months of a loved one's physical death. We compiled these and other best-estimate results into a one-page fact sheet that healthcare providers, educators, and others can use to educate people who seek empirically-based information about ADC.

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Expériences exceptionnelles nécrophaniques et deuil paradoxal : études de la phénoménologie et des répercussions des vécus effrayants de contact avec les défunts

Évrard¹,

Dollander²,

Elsaesser³

et al. 2021

L'Évolution Psychiatrique

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“I can’t explain it”: An examination of social convoys and after death communication narratives

Cited by 7 publications

References 21 publications

Exploring the needs and barriers for death education in China: Getting answers from heart transplant recipients' inner experience of death

Exploring the needs and barriers for death education in China: Getting answers from heart transplant recipients' inner experience of death

Empirically-Based Best Estimates of After-Death Communication (ADC) Phenomena: A Systematic Review of the Research

Expériences exceptionnelles nécrophaniques et deuil paradoxal : études de la phénoménologie et des répercussions des vécus effrayants de contact avec les défunts

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