Thesis--Bonn. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 4-14).

Tesis (maestro en artes en español)--Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. / Bibliography: leaves 110-117.

Within a year I lost three close family members. My grandfather, my grandmother and my stepfather. Three very different deaths and therefore very different mourning periods were entangled and intertwined. Death suddenly became a ubiquitous part of my life, and the sorrow an overshadowing part of my everyday. This period in my life became the starting point for my thesis 'Dying Traditions'. In todays Western Society we have become so good at prolonging life, that most people get to live a long life and die of old age. But the advancements in medical science have, together with the institutionalization, removed death from our daily life. We are no longer in contact with death aside from what we see through media and movies. We are missing a way of coping with the natural death, which makes it difficult to grasp and surrounds it with a taboo. With my work I want to facilitate a conversation surrounding death. By the use of contemporary jewellery and silversmithing work I want to place the conversation and presence of death in both the public, private and personal space. I want to create a starting point for new rituals to work through a mourning period. I make use of my own personal experiences as a starting point to create contemporary Memento Mori objects fitting for todays Northern European Society. / <p>Photos are removed due to copy rights.</p>

<p>Abstract</p><p>This work is about children in sorrow. I have chosen to set the focus on the school and the</p><p>teacher’s role in the meeting with mourning children and the difference between boys and</p><p>girls reactions when mourning.</p><p>The awareness and the great importance for a teachers knowledge to meet a child in mourning,</p><p>is something I myself has experienced when a child in nursery school lost one parent</p><p>through accident.</p><p>The result of the study reflects on four teachers and two headmasters experience of children in</p><p>sorrow and literature in the subject. It is important that the school and the teachers are aware</p><p>of the importance about the knowledge in the subject to be able to meet a mourning child in</p><p>need.</p><p>Keywords: Children, reactions when mourning, sorrow, the teacher’s role</p>

Abstract This work is about children in sorrow. I have chosen to set the focus on the school and the teacher’s role in the meeting with mourning children and the difference between boys and girls reactions when mourning. The awareness and the great importance for a teachers knowledge to meet a child in mourning, is something I myself has experienced when a child in nursery school lost one parent through accident. The result of the study reflects on four teachers and two headmasters experience of children in sorrow and literature in the subject. It is important that the school and the teachers are aware of the importance about the knowledge in the subject to be able to meet a mourning child in need. Keywords: Children, reactions when mourning, sorrow, the teacher’s role

"Die vorliegende Arbeit ... wurde von der philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Frankfurt als Dissertation angenommen." / Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-137).

The aim of this essay was to closer understand the experience of loss and sorrow in conjunction with serious physical illness. I have used a phenomenological approach and therefore used the questions: what have the individuals experienced? How have they experience it? And what meaning did they ascribe to the experience? To answer this questions I have examined five different biographies, based on the biographers’ experience of living with a serious physical illness. I have from these biographies deciphered different themes of loss and sorrow: The physical body, identity, loss of everyday life, to live in a social context, loss of control and the future. I have analysed the result with The Dual Process Model (Stroebe &amp; Schut 1999), where the main idea is that people who experience sorrow and grief, are in a need to oscillate, between confronting and avoidance of different emotions and stressors triggered by the loss. I confirm this in my result, where I have found that the individuals experience loss and sorrow in the themes above, but that they express it and experience it in different ways at different times, and therefore are in a need to oscillate between different emotions and stressors triggered by the loss they experience. My conclusion is that loss and sorrow is a complex and fluctuating phenomenon. Nevertheless, it affects a person’s whole existence.

Nursing research has been performed during the last 20-30 years, about the next of kin’s vulnerability. Despite this, the health care system has had difficulties to integrate the next of kin in a way that gives support. The overall aim of the thesis was to describe and further explore the life situation of the next of kin to persons who are long-term ill, disabled, and/or older, and in need of care. Method: Multiple methods were used. Study I had a descriptive design, 44 next of kin of patients with multiple sclerosis were interviewed, latent content analysis was used for the analysis. Study II had a mixed method approach; the descriptive core study was analyzed with directed content analysis. The supplementary study with descriptive, correlative design was analyzed with descriptive and correlative statistics. Forty-four next of kin of patients with multiple sclerosis were interviewed; thereafter 37 of them answered a questionnaire about Quality of Life. Study III had a descriptive, explorative design. Twelve next of kin of older persons were interviewed with repeated informal conversational interviews, analyzed with latent content analysis. Study IV was cross-sectional with a descriptive, correlative design. Eighty-four next of kin of persons who were long-term ill, disabled, and/or older answered two questionnaires about Burden and Quality of Life that were analyzed with descriptive and correlative statistics. Results and Conclusions: Next of kin described a balance/imbalance in their relations to others and a high burden, but in general a good Quality of Life. Some next of kin also experienced chronic sorrow. Significant correlations were found between interpersonal relations and Quality of Life as a whole. Love and obligations were two anchor points on a continuum, describing the next of kin’s relationship to the ill/disabled person. The relationship with the health care personnel was described through cooperation and obligations. Good communication was seen as the key to balance the relationship with others. One possibility to achieve symmetrical communications is to adapt the Partnership Model, as a tool for creating good relationships. Honest and specific communication between the health care personnel, the next of kin, and the care receiver are necessary.

The primary purpose of this study is to show that anticipations of the "art for art's sake" theory can be found in Tennyson's poetry which is in line with the tenets of aestheticism and symbolism, and to show that Tennyson's lyricism is a "Palace of Art" in which his tragic emotions-- sadness, sorrow, despair, and melancholic sensibility--were built into beauty.

This diploma thesis is conceived as theoretical and empirical. The theoretical part has two objectives. The first of these objectives is to explore options to help the surviving siblings in the family and society. The second objective is to describe the principles of educational work with traumatized children. This work introduces the specifics of early age and possible consequences of acting trauma in this life period. It outlines briefly the development of frequency of children's mortality and it considers whether death pertains among the taboos of the postmodern society. There are described manifestations of grief and mourning and factors, which determine the ability to accept a bereavement of a loved one. The findings are used to formulate the principles of education of the traumatized children. The practical part contains five case studies that provide information about factors which affected the lives of the surviving siblings. Keywords Early age, sorrow, trauma, mourning, death of a sibling