Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur präster och diakoner genom sin yrkesutövning upplever att döende och sörjande människors reflekterar och känner kring döden. För att svara an på syftet användes en kvalitativ metod i form av en tematisk analys. Datainsamlingen gjordes genom sju intervjuer, där en semistrukturerad intervjuguide användes. Kriterierna för deltagarna var att ha en yrkesroll som präst eller diakon och att ha erfarenhet med döende och/eller sörjande människor. Den tematiska analysen genererade sju teman för att besvara de två frågeställningarna. Temat Livsåskådning och dödsprocessen beskriver hur reflektion kring livet och mötet med döden naturligt uppstår för de flesta människor, men ger sig till uttryck på olika sätt.   Känsloregistret hos döende ger en bild av hur olika situationer och livssituationer betingar olika känslor, men även här finns det sammanfallande känslouttryck. Dödsacceptans beskriver i vilken grad respondenterna upplever att de döende kommer till en acceptans eller ej.  Betydelsen av relationer framhäver hur essentiellt det är att ha byggt goda relationer i livet, och visar hur detta påverkar dödsprocessen. Den sista fasen in i döden beskriver hur människor växlar mellan liv och död i det sista skedet. Rädsla för att prata om döden handlar om hur många människor undviker att prata om och förhålla sig till döden och döende. Sörjandes sorgeprocess beskriver reflektioner, reaktioner och känslor som respondenterna ser och upplever hos sörjande människor. Resultatet visar att reflektioner och känslor hos döende människor i hög grad är situationsbetingade. Dock finns det ett tydligt sammanhang mellan hur man levt livet och hur man möter döden. När det gäller sörjandes sorgeprocess är tomhetskänslor centralt, men även en upplevd närvaro av den döde. / The purpose of the study was to explore how the clergy, represented by priests and deacons, experience the reflections and emotions of dying and grieving people. A qualitative method was then applied in the form of a thematic analysis. The data collection was conducted through seven interviews, using a semi structured interview guide. The criteria for the participants were being in a work role as a priest or a deacon and having experience with dying and/or grieving people. The thematic analysis generated seven themes as a response to the two research questions. The theme Outlook on life and the death process describes how reflecting on life and death naturally occurs within most dying people, but that it is being expressed in different ways. The range of emotions gives an impression of how different life situations presupposes different emotions, but that it is also possible to see emotional patterns. Death acceptance describes to what extent the respondents perceive that dying people come to an acceptance of their own death. The significance of relationships highlights the importance of building relationships through life and indicates how this affects the death process. The last phase into death describes how people move back and forth between life and death in the final phase. Fear of talking about death concerns the fear many people have of talking about and relating to death and dying people. The grieving process describes the reflections, reactions and emotions that the respondents see and experience in grieving people. The results show that the reflections and emotions of dying people significantly depends on their situation. However, there is a clear connection between how people lived their lives and their death process. For grieving people, a feeling of emptiness is prevalent, and a perceived presence of the dead.

The theses deal with the last period of the person´s life and the possibilities of the care focused on the spiritual, psychic, physical and social aspect of the issue. It offers possibilities of ethical way how to cope with this life´s stage having the help of social workers, family and also the dying person. The practical part compares opinions of the hospice workers with the views of the workers from old people´s homes with respect to this issue. It also points at the demnad of the work and some of its difficulties.

The thesis focuses on the possibilities to use elements of palliative hospice care in the retirement home. The work describes basic theoretical themes such as human dignity, its interpretation and dignified dying. It also presents basic issues concerning dying and death, ethical problems of different phases of dying, as well as the dying person's needs. The thesis tries to answer the question about the possibility of dignified dying through the use of hospice care. It also defines palliative care provided in hospices as one of the approaches to long-term care of dying people. The research analyses two standards of nursing care in retirement homes The care of a dying person and The care of a dead person. It presents results of its own research method realized through semi-structured interviews with clients of a retirement home. The aim of the research is to find out whether the clients themselves are interested in application of hospice palliative care in the retirement home.

This diploma work deals with hospice and a quality of care given to the clients of the hospice, that fully covers complex needs, changing during a life limiting illness, taking in account the dignity of the human being to the very last moment of his life. This care is a promise for a man, that he won´t be alone in the burdensome moments of his life. There are a hospice management and various forms of hospice care in Czech Republic described in a theoretical part of the work. This chapter is to be a handbook for providing companionship to the dying person and is to draw our attention not only to the changing priorities of the dying person and to stages, that he is to go through, but to an irreplaceable role of a caregiver at his bed. In a practical part of this work there are investigated the attitudes of the caregivers in hospice and public to the process of dying of the human being. The founded results of the research show, that people finding themselves in a final stage of the life-limiting illness change their priorities; the spiritual needs become more important, especially to attain a peace with self, with other people; clients trusting in God long for consilience with God; the results of the research show however, that most public is not familiar enough with the problem of dying and death, and that there is generally low knowledge on how to provide companionship to the dying person.