Living in a Limbo: A Sociological Study of Missing Funerals, Death Rituals, and Complicated Grief in COVID-19
Illn Crises Loss
; 2022.
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in English
| PubMed Central | ID: covidwho-2064595
ABSTRACT
In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in India, due to strict lockdown, the family members of the victims of COVID-19 had to witness the dying and death of their relatives in solitude, improper funerals, and the absence of death rituals. After in-depth interviews with twelve relatives of seven deceased patients conducted more than a year after experiencing those deaths of loved ones, it was found that most of them had been struggling with long-term complicated grief without a sense of resolution. As funerals and death rituals, following the work of Van Gennep in his ‘Rites of Passage’, ensure the transition of grievers from a preliminal state by preparing for the imminent loss to a postliminal renovated stable state by reabsorbing them into the collective social and cultural conditions, the absence of that compels the mourners to get stuck in a liminal state, or limbo.
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Illn Crises Loss
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2022
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