Meaning of Death: an Exploration of Perception of Elderly in a Bangladeshi Village

Joarder, Taufique; Cooper, Alicia L.; Zaman, Shahaduz

doi:10.1007/s10823-014-9237-6

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“…, Joarder et al . ). With the exception of one urban–rural study (Knight ), all the included studies were classified as being solely rural in focus.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…One study focused on the ‘bad death’ (Joarder et al . ). The ‘good death’ referred to the death event, the dying process, the meaning of death and the after‐death concept.…”

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“…, Joarder et al . ) implied the ‘good death’ by focusing on quality EoLC. The ‘good death’ was not the primary objective in the remaining three studies (Easom et al .…”

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“…Participants over 80 years of age were interviewed in Canada (Biggs ), Bangladesh (Joarder et al . ) and Kenya (Grant et al . ).…”

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Rural residents' perspectives on the rural ‘good death’: a scoping review

Rainsford

MacLeod

Glasgow

et al. 2016

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The 'good death' is one objective of palliative care, with many 'good death' viewpoints and research findings reflecting the urban voice. Rural areas are distinct and need special consideration. This scoping review identified and charted current research knowledge on the 'good' rural death through the perspectives of rural residents, including rural patients with a life-limiting illness, to identify evidence and gaps in the literature for future studies. A comprehensive literature search of English language articles (no date filter applied) was conducted in 2016 (2 January to 14 February) using five library databases. Reference lists of included articles, recent issues of eight relevant journals and three grey literature databases were also hand-searched. Twenty articles (for 17 studies and one systematic review) were identified after a two-phase screening process by two reviewers, using pre-determined inclusion criteria. Data from each study were extracted and charted, analysed using a thematic analysis of the included articles' content, and with a quantitative analysis of the scoping review. These papers revealed data collected from rural patients with a life-limiting illness and family caregivers, rural healthcare providers, the wider rural community, rural community leaders and rural health administrators and policy makers. Rural locations were heterogeneous. Residents from developed and developing countries believe a 'good death' is one that is peaceful, free of pain and without suffering; however, this is subjective and priorities are based on personal, cultural, social and religious perspectives. Currently, there is insufficient data to generalise rural residents' perspectives and what it means for them to die well. Given the extreme importance of a 'good death', there is a need for further studies to elicit rural patient and family caregiver perspectives.

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“…, Joarder et al . ). With the exception of one urban–rural study (Knight ), all the included studies were classified as being solely rural in focus.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…One study focused on the ‘bad death’ (Joarder et al . ). The ‘good death’ referred to the death event, the dying process, the meaning of death and the after‐death concept.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…, Joarder et al . ) implied the ‘good death’ by focusing on quality EoLC. The ‘good death’ was not the primary objective in the remaining three studies (Easom et al .…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Participants over 80 years of age were interviewed in Canada (Biggs ), Bangladesh (Joarder et al . ) and Kenya (Grant et al . ).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Rural residents' perspectives on the rural ‘good death’: a scoping review

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MacLeod

Glasgow

et al. 2016

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“…Here the sick bed and the process of dying tend to be confined to the seclusion of the house, while the funeral is public. Joardar has shown that Bangladeshi people define ‘good death’ as that which takes place in the presence of loved ones (Joardar et al., 2014). In contrast to the notion of autonomy in Western culture, the collective or relational self plays a more prominent role in individual life in Bangladesh.…”

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Common or multiple futures for end of life care around the world? Ideas from the ‘waiting room of history’

Zaman

Inbadas

Whitelaw

et al. 2017

Social Science & Medicine

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Around the world there is growing interest in the manner in which care is delivered to people at the end of life. However, there is little unanimity on what constitutes a ‘good death’ and the appropriate societal responses to the issue of delivering culturally relevant and sustainable forms of end of life care in different settings are not subjects of broad agreement. In this critical conceptual paper we focus on the emerging narratives of global palliative care and offer an assessment of their implications. We relate this to calls to improve end of life care across jurisdictions and settings, attempts to map and grade the development of palliative care provision, and to the emergence of a widely recognised global ‘quality of death index’. We consider an alternative approach to framing this debate, drawn from a subaltern and post-colonial studies perspective and suggest that adopting a truly global perspective will require acceptance of the plurality of past and present local problems and issues relating to end of life care, as well as the plural possibilities of how they might be overcome. In that context, we would not aim to universalise or privilege one particular global future for end of life care. Instead of homogenising end of life interventions, we seek to be open to multiple futures for the care of the dying.

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