ABSTRACT
Esta pesquisa pretendeu analisar como a experiência laboral do agente funerário afeta suas relações cotidianas e sua percepção sobre a morte. Realizaram-se entrevistas semiestruturadas com cinco agentes funerários no Sul do Brasil. Em uma sociedade onde o tema da morte é um tabu, ao se relacionar com o corpo falecido nos rituais funerários, são despertados no trabalhador questionamentos acerca da própria finitude. Os dados coletados foram submetidos a uma análise de conteúdo e discutidos a partir de uma perspectiva existencialista sartriana quando os conceitos como morte e projeto-de-ser foram explorados. Identificaram-se alguns fatores que podem dificultar o trabalho dos agentes, dentre eles: a falta de preparação para o atendimento da família enlutada, a dificuldade em se deparar com a questão da morte, os impactos de seu trabalho nas relações pessoais e a visão social sobre as características de seu trabalho.
This research aimed to analyze how work experience of morticians affects their daily relationships and perception of death. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with five funeral directors in southern Brazil. In a society where the theme of death is a taboo, when relating to the deceased body in funerary rituals, workers are awakened to questions about their own finitude. The collected data were subjected to content analysis and discussed from a Sartrian existentialist perspective, when concepts such as death and project-to-be were explored. Some factors that can make mortician's work difficult were identified, including: lack of preparation for the care of the mourning family, difficulty in facing the issue of death, the impacts of their work on personal relationships and the social vision about the characteristics of their work.
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Humans , Male , Adult , Death , Mortuary Practice , Occupational Groups/psychology , Perception , Attitude to DeathABSTRACT
Objective To understand the status of water contact and labor practice of residents in plateau mountain schisto?somiasis endemic areas in Yunnan Province so as to provide the evidence for formulating the strategy of prevention and control of schistosomiasis in the next step of work. Methods A total of 412 residents aged 6-65 years old in 2 villages were randomly sampled and investigated with questionnaires for their water contacts and labor practices in plateau valley schistosomiasis endem?ic areas. Then the schistosome infection status of the residents was surveyed with the indirect hemagglutination assay IHA . Re?sults Among the 412 residents investigated the rate of water contact was 88.35% and the main causes of water contact were watering and swimming and playing. The percentages of residents who had schistosomiasis history were 1.16% 0.00%30.80% 3.85% and 0 in them who had swimming and playing water?contacts bathing watering washing hands and others respectively χ2=38.96 P<0.01 . The positives of IHA in the above?mentioned residents were 18.60% 0.00% 37.60%23.08% and 0 respectively χ2=12.61 P<0.05 . Conclusions The productive infested water contact is the main way of schistosome infection. Therefore the changes of labor practices and water contact of the residents are very important for the ef?fective prevention and control of schistosomiasis transmission.