Relationality and Finitude: A Social Ontology of Grief

Sköld, Alfred Bordado

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“…43 But as our study demonstrates, understandings and enactments of a preference for home death might be intertwined with the need to preserve the continuity of the self and reciprocity -a sense of 'we-ness'. 44,45 As the cases show, notions of home death are often related to a wish to preserve independence and self-determination, virtues highly valued in Western societies. However, when people become highly dependent on care and support from others, these virtues are difficult to uphold.…”

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‘It’s not just about me’: a qualitative study of couples’ narratives about home death when one of the partners is dying of cancer

Aurén-Møkleby,

Thoresen,

Mengshoel

et al. 2023

Palliat�Care

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Background: Most cancer patients state a preference for home death. Care and support from primary caregivers are important to enable dying at home. A preference for home death from the perspective of couples has rarely been investigated. Objectives: To explore how a preference for home death is understood and enacted in couples where one of the partners is dying of cancer. Design: A qualitative interview research design with a narrative approach was used. Methods: Five couples participated in dyad interviews. During the analysis, two interviews that particularly illuminated couples’ shared and individual views were chosen as the primary cases. Results: The interviews show, in two highly different ways, how a preference for home death is a significant relational matter. The interviews are presented as two cases: ‘Struggles in an Unknown Terrain’ and ‘Reliance at the Kitchen Table’. They show how a preference for home death can be understood and enacted as a struggle or as reliance based on the couple’s shared biography and the partner’s ability to care for the partner during the end-of-life phase. The analysis highlighted the negotiations that underpin a preference for home death. In these negotiations, the couples drew on idealised understandings of home death. These ideas were supported by cultural values related to autonomy and independence as well as participation and citizenship. Thus, in the negotiations about being cared for and caring, legitimate dependency and the maintenance of a reciprocal relationship were balanced. The presence of healthcare professionals and medical devices in the home had to be balanced with the need to maintain a sense of self and an authentic home. Conclusion: A relational perspective on a preference for home death made us attentive to couples’ negotiations. These negotiations give couples the opportunity to re-evaluate and reconfirm individual and mutual needs in the end-of-life phase.

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Section: Negotiating Idealsmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘It’s not just about me’: a qualitative study of couples’ narratives about home death when one of the partners is dying of cancer

Aurén-Møkleby,

Thoresen,

Mengshoel

et al. 2023

Palliat�Care

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A Critique of Existential Loneliness

Gallagher

2023

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After a brief review of different definitions and types of loneliness I offer an analysis of the concept of existential loneliness and its philosophical background. In contrast to the interpersonal aspects of other types of loneliness, existential loneliness has been characterized as an intrapersonal default state of incommunicability or profound aloneness, part of or based on a fundamental ontological or transcendental structure in human existence. There are both conceptual and practical issues with the notion of existential loneliness, with implications for psychotherapy. I offer a critical approach, and argue that there is no good philosophical basis for this conception of existential loneliness, and that although loneliness can be existential in some respect, it typically manifests itself in interpersonal contexts, and should not be considered a fundamental ontological structure of human existence.

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Relationality and Finitude: A Social Ontology of Grief

Cited by 2 publications

References 123 publications

‘It’s not just about me’: a qualitative study of couples’ narratives about home death when one of the partners is dying of cancer

‘It’s not just about me’: a qualitative study of couples’ narratives about home death when one of the partners is dying of cancer

A Critique of Existential Loneliness

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