ABSTRACT
This a phenomenologial study rites in the memory of elderly people, originated from the discomfort lived by the authors in their professional life dealing with death and dying. Verbal information from elderly people was collected with the objective of recovery and decoding mortuary rites. Nine themes originated from these informations: feelings and meanings in relation to death, the time of death, the annunciation death, the body's preparations, the watcher, the funeral procession, the grave, the return to home, the remembered death. The results gave the authors opportunity to understand better the attitudes of health professionals in caring for patients and their families in this existential experience of to-be-for-death. The death rationalized by scientific knowledge and nonpersonal technological care hides new rites, transmuted by new representations which the society built.
Subject(s)
Aged/psychology , Attitude of Health Personnel , Attitude to Death , Funeral Rites , Adaptation, Psychological , Existentialism , Humans , Nursing Methodology ResearchABSTRACT
The authors present daily experience report of a health staff, based in some aspects of microsociology in which the human being manifests all of its "theatrical behavior". Daily life is revealed in a closer look by the health field professionals. Daily life is the "stage" where the plot of life takes place in all of its complexity, the joy, the dreams, the conflicts and the suffering of each day, of each human being. This report analysis some aspects of the "underground centralization of actions", which determines human existence. It has been observed that the power category represented by the "game" had outstanding relevance in the work social relations of the staff. The "theatrical behavior" was the other element found in the analysis made.
