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The purpose of this qualitative study is to describe the nature and significance of the after-death communication experience (ADC). The research asks what is it like to have an experience of communication with a deceased loved one, what is the essential nature of the experience, and what are the effects and meanings of the experience within the lives of the participants? This study explores the lived experiences of eighteen participants, sixteen women and two men, who report a variety of ADCs over the years following their bereavement. The ADCs are explored within the context of the participants’ lives so as to show how these extraordinary experiences can be understood as happening to real people within their own history rather than as isolated events. The first part of the thesis gives biographical descriptions of the participants’ lives following their ADCs. The second part of the thesis analyses the essential nature and qualities of the ADC experience and gives a robust description of the nature of the phenomenon. Phenomenological analysis of the data occurs in overlapping steps consisting of the individual descriptions, reduction techniques and emergence of seven themes describing the essence of the experiences for these participants. The themes show the experiences are unexpected and startling and intrude into ordinary experience. Familiar characteristics authenticate the presence of the deceased. Information, care, love and ongoing relationship are conveyed. The participants grapple with the experiences over time. They find they are deeply imprinted and powerful, and produce immediate and long-term effects. Heightened awareness that transcends ordinary experience gives the bereaved a ‘knowing’ of the ongoing life of their loved one. Expanded consciousness and reflection lead to seeing reality as larger and more complex and includes an unseen world where their loved one is continuing to live in another form. The themes are illustrated using the participants’ descriptions of their ADCs. Last of all a description of the phenomenon is compiled using an intuitive reflective process. Powerful and transforming after-effects demonstrate that the ADCs contribute to managing grief in the major losses of the participants’ lives, to the allaying of fears of death, to belief in an after-life and to belief in the interconnectedness and continuity of relationships across the boundary of death. There are major changes in sense of self, life and living, purpose and meaning, spiritual and religious understanding, and psychic sensitivity. / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Thesis (MA(Ancient languages and cultural study))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-109).

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This thesis deals with the topic of afterlife in the evangelical imagination. It aims to find out the space for consolation (after the death of a youth) in the evangelical afterlife imaginations. The theoretical part deals with issues of death and afterlife in anthropological and biblical context. The thesis also defines the concepts of funeral and consolation. In the analytical part the thesis introduces four evangelical pastors who were interviewed regarding the funeral of a youth and specific topic of funeral at which the pastor is emotionally interested. Furthermore, the analytical part deals with the topics of personal attitudes towards death, the manner of dealing with it, images of afterlife and the ways of consolation. Using qualitative research methodology the thesis analyzes the research question of how particular evangelical pastors cope with the death of a youth in the context of the doctrine. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

Bakgrund: Att vara närstående vid livets slut och att förlora en av sina närmaste är oftast mycket svårt. Närstående kan ha behov av stöd efter dödsfallet för att kunna hantera sin situation och sorg. Den palliativa vården grundar sig på fyra hörnstenar där en är stöd till närstående. Palliativa verksamheter erbjuder olika former av stöd till närstående en tid efter patientens död. Syfte: Syftet var att belysa närståendes erfarenhet av stöd efter dödsfall i palliativ vård. Metod: Studien genomfördes som en litteraturstudie och baserades på tolv kritiskt granskade kvalitativa och kvantitativa artiklar. Litteratursökningen har utförts i databaserna PubMed, Psycinfo och Cinahl. Resultat: De behov som beskrivs och identifieras i resultatet är: praktiskt stöd med underkategorier: vägledning och socialt stöd samt emotionellt stöd med underkategorier: hantera sorgeprocessen, trygghet och tillit och själslig balans. Slutsats: För att möjliggöra stöd till närstående är det viktigt att vårdpersonalen erbjuder och informerar om vilket stöd de kan ge. Vårdarna behöver vägledning i vilket stöd de kan erbjuda och till vem/vilka stödet riktar sig till. Närståendes behov av stöd kan se olika ut. Att identifiera de närståendes som är i behov av mest stöd är något som behöver utvecklas inom den palliativa vården. / Background: Relatives or close friends may be in need of support following the death of a loved one. Palliative care is based on four keystones, one being support to relatives or close friends. Palliative care units offer various types of support for some time after the patient ́s death. Aim: To investigate relatives ́ or close friends ́experience of support in an end-of-life situation in a palliative care context. Method: The study was in the formof a literature review based on twelve critically examined qualitative and quantative studies. The literature search was conducted in the PubMed, Psycinfo and Cinahl databases. Results: The needs which are identified in the result are practical needs such as guidance and social support and emotional needs such as coping with the grieving process, confidence, trust and inner balance. Conclusion: It is important that healthcare professionals not only offer supportin general, but also communicate what type of support they can give. Healthcare professionals themselves need guidance in this area. Relatives and close friends have varying needs of support and identifying the type of need and above all identifying who is in most need is something which palliative care should develop.

In this study, after-death communication (ADC) is defined as spontaneously occurring encounters with the deceased. Reported occurrences of ADC phenomena range widely among published ADC research studies, so a systematic review of 35 studies was conducted. A rubric was developed to evaluate the methodological quality; final inter-rater reliability among three raters was r = .90. Results were used to rank the studies; the methodologically strongest studies were used to arrive at best estimate answers to four research questions/subquestions: (1) How common are experiences of ADC? How does occurrence vary by gender, age, marital status, ethnicity, religious practice, religious affiliation, financial status, physical health, educational level, and grief status? (2) To what extent do ADCrs report ADC experiences to be beneficial and/or detrimental? What are the leading benefits and/or detriments? (3) What is the incidence of research studies in which the researchers mentioned that the research participants appeared mentally healthy? (4) What is the incidence of sensory modalities—for example, visual, auditory, and kinesthetic—in which ADCs occur? Best estimate results were compiled into a one-page fact sheet that counselors and others can use to educate people who seek empirically-based information about ADC.

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The main question of this work is which view existentialists philosophers have about the death. The main intentension of this work is to demonstrate the different kinds of understanding the death by individual authors. We look for the answers of the questiones, if we can find the different forms of the death. The questiones, which way authors akcept the dead in their works, or if being of the death affect their work. At the end I want to refer of the question of life after the death. If authors belived in the life after the dead or if they didn´t. The work is written with consciousness, that the death has its own secret, that is hardly to answer.

Yes / Care after the death of a child and support of their bereaved family is an important element of the services offered by children’s hospices in the United Kingdom. The study aims to explore the emotional challenges of those delivering care to families of children in hospice cool rooms. An internet-based questionnaire was sent to all practitioners to explore their perspectives of providing care to bereaved families whilst the child’s body was in the hospice, as well as caring for a child’s body after death. In total, 94.9% (n=56) of staff responded. Two key themes were identified that represent the emotional challenges perceived by staff: the impact of deterioration of a child’s body; and witnessing the acute grief of families. Practitioners seek to provide care that recognises the importance of family and demonstrates family-centred care, as well as supporting families to deal with the changes that occur after death. Organisations can support practitioners to deliver care in cool rooms by providing training and education on anticipating and managing the pathophysiological changes that occur after death as well as training in grief and loss, and how to support a bereaved family. / Research Development Fund Publication Prize Award winner, May 2021.