Dissertations / Theses: 'Dying'

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Bowling, Tim. "Dying scarlet." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq22517.pdf.

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Winther, Sarah. "Dying Traditions." Thesis, Konstfack, Ädellab, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-5567.

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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.

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Lark, Elise. "Making Space for Dying: Portraits of Living with Dying." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1413217166.

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Ekwomadu, Christian. "Dying with Dignity." Thesis, Linköping University, Centre for Applied Ethics, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-9201.

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The concept of dignity has beeen one of the ambiguous concepts in biomedical ethics. Thus the ambiguous nature of this concept has been extended to what it means to die with dignity. This research work is an investigation into the complexity in the understanding of "dying with dignity" in Applied Ethics.

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Dunlop, Tim, and n/a. "Dying of strangeness." University of Canberra. Communication, Media & Tourism, 1996. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060706.161625.

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O'Shea, Anthony. "Dying to innovate." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325885.

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Purcell, Amy. "The Great Dying." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1374523637.

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Feinstein, Carla Fran. "Dying to Know." PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1318.

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鈴木, 常彦, and Tsunehiko Suzuki. "Is the DNS dying?" 名古屋大学情報連携基盤センター, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/2741.

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Rice, James Paul. "Death, Dying and Decisionmaking." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496011.

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Yang, Yoo Sung. "Pastoral care for the dying." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.

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de, Haas Marije, Sue Hignett, and Thomas Gyuchan Jun. "Dying ‘on time’ in dementia." TUDpress, 2019. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A36697.

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The fear of suffering dementia may lead to people signing an Advance Euthanasia Directive to make provision for health care decisions in the event that he/she becomes unable to make those decisions. However, Advance Euthanasia Directives are rarely adhered to in the case of dementia because the symptoms of dementia conflict with the due care criteria; a person requesting euthanasia must be able to confirm this request at time of death and must be undergoing unbearable and hopeless suffering. Once dementia has progressed, the euthanasia ‘wish’ can no longer be confirmed, and assessing suffering in a person with dementia is nearly impossible. This means that for a euthanasia request to be successful you have to perform the euthanasia early enough, while the patient is still cognitively competent. The risk in doing so is that the patient may lose years of their life that could have been full of quality. Postponing euthanasia in dementia could result in euthanasia not being possible and the person with dementia living a life that they did not want. This paper addresses how to decide what ‘on time’ is when it comes to dying with dementia through literature review, information visualisation and public debate.

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Morris, William L. "Dying well a Christian perspective /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Sitton, Christina M. "A Strange Kind of Dying." DigitalCommons@USU, 2014. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/3314.

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Fragmentation is a basic symptom of loss, and poetry naturally reflects this disjointing and destructive effect. The fracturing within the poetic form reflects the internal and repeated fracturing effects of trauma on one's own life. In this poetry collection, A Strange Kind of Dying, the speaker is bound by the question, "How is it that I can piece myself back together?" The collection of poetry is meant to help the speaker to find healing from the fragmentation through language. The work is intended to be an act of transfer, passing on one human experience to another. The structure of the poems are eclectic in style to reflect the themes of fragmentation, disruption, and separation, making a strong connections between theme, content, and form. To achieve this aesthetic, I incorporate the formal and tonal qualities found within the poetic stylings of the lyric, elegiac, formalist, and confessional. By overlaying the above mentioned styles, tones, forms, and poetic concerns, I believe that my works contribute to poetry because it is a contemporary, poetic representation of the destroyed self. That is, it is an expression of how someone of today, in our modern, technological, and fast paced world, deals with the halting, and at time, paralyzing effects of loss, grief and trauma.

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Becher, Monica M. "Hospice, a place for the dying." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ42334.pdf.

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Kulas, Gail P. "Opening doors, understanding experiences of dying." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ64938.pdf.

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George, David S. "Ministry to the bereaved and dying." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Brittingham, Jane M. "Great Recession Dying, Okun's Law Resurrected." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/456.

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White, Amanda M. "Death and Dying in Assisted Living." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/gerontology_theses/17.

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This study examined death and dying in assisted living (AL) and the various factors that influence these processes. The study is set in a 60-bed assisted living facility outside of Atlanta, Georgia. Data collection methods included participant observation and in-depth interviews with 28 residents and 6 staff. Data were analyzed using the grounded theory approach and focused on the 18 residents who were dying and/or died during the study period. Findings show that AL residents experience a variety of dying trajectories that vary in duration and shape; for the majority of residents, hospice is an important element in their death and dying experiences. In general, death is not communicated or acknowledged formally within the facility. Responses to deaths depend largely on the nature of the relationship the deceased resident had with others. Findings have implications for how to handle death and dying in AL and to improve residents‟ experiences.

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Martin, Gregory M. "Revitalizing a Dying School-Business Partnership." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37650.

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The notion of business involvement in helping to improve public schools is not new. Although business involvement faded somewhat in the 1960s and 1970s, a resurgence in business involvement began in the late seventies and early eighties. School-business partnerships have been steadily on the rise from around 40,000 in 1983 to over 200,000 by the mid-1990's. When schools and businesses become involved in partnerships certain conditions must be present for the partnerships to succeed. Those conditions include awareness, clear and measurable goals and objectives by both partners, the necessity of identifying potential resources and talent, reciprocal benefits for participants, and the ability to carry out formal evaluation of the program. The purpose of this study was to attempt to save a school-business partnership that had the potential to make a significant contribution to both a middle school and a large employer in Southside Virginia. By identifying the variables involved in both the erosion and revitalization of a school-business partnership, the information could prove valuable to others who may be struggling to maintain or renew partnerships in their schools or businesses. This study was conducted in two phases. The first phase involved the identification of the variables which contributed to the disintegration of a school-business partnership. The second phase involved using a 12-step partnership development process created by the National Association for Partners in Education to revitalize the partnership. A series of interviews, surveys, and questionnaires, as well as a search of current school data were used to determine the variables present in both phases. In phase I of the study, a serious lack of communication, perhaps even miscommunication, appeared to lead to the total shutdown of the partnering process. This breakdown in communication prevented other possibilities for success. The absence of goals or a formal agreement on the nature of the partnership also appeared to be one of its major downfalls. Phase II of the investigation involved partnership renewal. The major ingredients necessary for partnership development were communication; awareness; reciprocal benefits to participants; mutually acceptable, clear goals and objectives; the ability to carry out formal, on-going evaluation of the partnership; continuous recognition of good works by the stakeholders; and the use of the National Association for Partners in Education 12-step process as both a diagnostic and prescriptive resource for partnering. School-business partnerships, like all other human endeavors, require understanding, nurturing and support. By attempting to understand and embrace the needs of each partner, the true promise of this very human endeavor may be realized. Developing and revitalizing school-business partnerships is not only possible, but essential if we hope to create the type of learning communities necessary to the total education of children.
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Lik, Marta. "The doctor and the dying child." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3418.

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Snoddy, Ashley Marie. "Death and Dying in Adolescent Literature." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1394210773.

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Hirt, Ulrich. "Recognition and phagocytosis of dying cells." [S.l. : s.n.], 2001. http://www.bsz-bw.de/cgi-bin/xvms.cgi?SWB9676781.

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Chan, Lisa Suzanne. ""Dying people don't belong here": how cultural aspects of the acute medical ward shape care of the dying." Thesis, McGill University, 2014. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=122996.

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Background: In Canada, most people die in hospital on acute medical units. Research conducted in such units has shown that dying patients often experience uncontrolled symptoms, such as pain and breathlessness. Further, hospitalized patients with end-stage disease and their family members have reported dissatisfaction with how emotional problems were addressed as well as how they were communicated with. Palliative care is understood to be the best approach to care for patients with life-threatening illness; yet, there remain constraints within the acute medical setting that make it difficult to provide such care. Aim: The purpose of this project was to better understand how cultures of care on an acute medical ward shape care practices for dying patients and what are the implications for these patients.Methodology and Methods: A focused ethnography was conducted on an acute medical ward over a period of 10 months. Data collection methods included participant-observation (600 hours over 98 visits), fieldnotes, and semi-structured interviews with patients (n = 10), family members (n = 11), and staff members (n = 14).Results: Two competing approaches to care are at play concerning dying patients: curative and palliative. This 'philosophical divide' underpins a 'logic of care' that is then used to justify the precedence of one approach to care over another. The logic of care is expressed in the following way: that limited resources (staffing, beds, equipment, and time) are in tension with ideals of good care, leading to what is perceived to be a busy environment where staff feel obliged to formulate priorities in order to meet the demands of a hectic unit. Because not every demand can be met, this logic of care is then used to privilege curative approaches to care as well as acute care tasks over palliative ones. This has repercussions for the dying patient's experience when patients' needs are not met, which further leads to patients (as well as their family members) feeling as though they do not matter. Another social process observed was the categorization of patients as curative or palliative. One of the main implications for patients categorized as palliative is that they are seen by many staff as not belonging on the medical ward. Conclusions: In the context of a curative/palliative culture clash, curative approaches and tasks are prioritized in the care provided to dying patients. Palliative care is generally perceived as limited to those with cancer at the very end of life and for those patients not requiring acute interventions. These perceptions influence the care of the dying through delaying a palliative approach to care until patients are transferred to a dedicated palliative care ward, and also through the provision of curatively-oriented end of life care. The perception that palliative or dying patients do not belong on the ward contributes to the rationale for not providing palliative care on the ward. Implications for practice could involve reflecting on how a staff focus on tasks shifts attention away from patient –or person –centered approaches to care and is potentially marginalizing to dying patients.
Historique :Au Canada, la plupart des personnes meurent à l'hôpital à des unités de soins aigus. Les recherches menées à de telles unités ont montré que certains symptômes qu'éprouvaient les patients mourants tels la douleur et l'essoufflement étaient souvent non contrôlés. De plus, les patients hospitalisés souffrant d'une maladie terminale ainsi que les membres de leur famille ont rapporté leur insatisfaction quant à la façon dont les problèmes émotionnels étaient abordés ainsi que de la façon dont on communiquait avec eux. Les soins palliatifs sont censés être la meilleure approche en matière de soins aux patients atteints d'une maladie terminale. Cependant, il subsiste des contraintes dans les milieux de soins aigus qui rendent la prestation de ce type de soins difficile. Objectif:La raison d'être de ce projet était de mieux comprendre comment les cultures de soins en présence à une unité de soins aigus façonnent les pratiques de soins prodigués aux patients mourants et quelles en sont les implications pour ces patients.Méthodologie et méthodes:Une méthodologie ethnographique concentrée a été menée à une unité de soins aigus sur une période de 10 mois. Les méthodes de collecte des données incluaient l'observation participante (600 heures sur 98 visites), les notes prises sur le terrain et des entrevues semi-structurées avec les patients (n=10), des membres de la famille (n=11) et les membres du personnel (n= 14).Résultats:Deux approches de soins divergentes entrent en jeu quand il s'agit de patients mourants : curative et palliative. Cette «division philosophique» sous-tend une «logique de soins» qui est alors utilisée pour justifier la préséance d'un type d'approche sur l'autre. La logique de soins est exprimée de la façon suivante : que des ressources limitées (personnel, lits, équipements et temps) sont difficilement conciliables avec les idéaux de bons soins, conduisant à ce qui est perçu comme étant un milieu de travail au rythme frénétique où le personnel se sent obligé d'établir des priorités afin de répondre aux demandes d'une unité surchargée. Parce que toutes les demandes ne peuvent être satisfaites, cette logique de soins est alors utilisée pour privilégier les approches de soins curatives de même que des tâches liées aux soins aigus, aux dépens de celles liées aux soins palliatifs. Ceci a des répercussions sur l'expérience vécue par le patient mourant quand ses besoins ne sont pas satisfaits, ce qui conduit alors les patients (ainsi que les membres de leur famille) à penser qu'ils ne comptent pas. Un autre processus social était la classification des patients comme curatifs ou palliatifs. L'une des principales implications de cette classification des patients comme palliatifs est que les patients mourants sont vus par de nombreux membres du personnel comme n'appartenant pas à l'unité médicale.Conclusions:Dans le cadre d'un choc culturel curatif/palliatif, les approches et les tâches curatives ont la priorité, même en matière de soins prodigués aux patients mourants. Les soins palliatifs sont généralement perçus comme limités à ceux qui souffrent d'un cancer en toute fin de vie et aux patients qui n'ont pas besoin d'interventions de type aigu. Ces perceptions influent sur les soins prodigués aux patients mourants en retardant des soins palliatifs jusqu'à ce que les patients soient transférés à une unité de soins spécifiquement palliatifs et, en prodiguant des soins de fin de vie très largement orientés vers le curatif. La perception selon laquelle les patients palliatifs ou mourants n'appartiennent pas à l'unité participe à la justification de ne pas fournir de soins palliatifs à l'unité. Les implications quant aux pratiques peuvent inclure d'axer les soins sur le patient lui-même et ses besoins par opposition à mettre l'accent sur les tâches qui sont exécutées et à réfléchir sur la façon dont ces priorités marginalisent potentiellement les patients mourants.

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Zimm, Malin. "The Dying Dreamer - Architecture of Parallel Realities." Licentiate thesis, KTH, School of Architecture, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-1630.

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The objective of this licentiate thesis is to investigatearchitectural experience and creation in virtual space and itsrepresentational problems. The thesis comprises three articlespublished during the years 2001-2003, and a website,www.arch.kth.se/~zimm.

The articles investigate architecture as a transgressivestate between the virtual worlds of imagination and thedomestic interior, introducing obsessive dreambuilding as amethod of negotiating material fictions in real space. The mainrepresentative of this kind of architectural activity is thefictional character Baron des Esseintes in Joris-KarlHuysmans´ novel À Rebours (1884). Together with thearchitectural transformations created by the architect Sir JohnSoane and the artists Kurt Schwitters and Gregor Schneider, theprojects share and develop the theme of extreme individualityand explore the architectural imagination at work in the mindof the obsessive dreambuilder. These architects of parallelrealities create operative fields of artificiality andimagination, where architectural space splits into differentontological states, providing fields for observation ofperceptional and representational problems.

Keywords:Architecture, Against Nature/À Rebours,Artifice, Artificiality, Domestic interior, Dream, Experience,Fiction, Hypertext, Huysmans, Imagination, Individuality,Interactivity, Interface, Obsession, Obsessive dreambuilding,Perception, Representation, Schwitters, Schneider, Soane,Symbolism, Virtual Reality

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Jacques, Denise. "Death and dying in England, 1600-1680." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/5090.

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Mast, Bruce A. "Dying is easy, but living is hard." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1985. http://www.tren.com.

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Richards, Jeremiah. "Hospital chaplaincy I'm dying to meet you /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p062-0291.

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Fraser, Morgan. "On dying stars : supernovae and their progenitors." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.579701.

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In the last fifteen years, searches for the progenitors of core-collapse supernovae (SNe) in archival images have provided the crucial "missing link" between the final stages in the evolution of a massive star, and its explosion as a core-collapse SN. In this thesis, I present new detections and limits for core-collapse SN progenitors, together with a critical re-analysis of those already published. I present detailed studies of the progenitors of three nearby SNe. For the sub- luminous Type IIP SN 2009md, I find a coincident red supergiant progenitor with a mass of ~8 M in archival images, which is consistent with the low mass progenitors found for other faint Type IIP SNe. Such events appear to come from red supergiants at the lower extremum of the mass range for core-collapse. I discuss the intermediate Type IIP /L SN 2009kr, for which I find what appears to be a massive yellow supergiant progenitor. I consider possible explanations for the observed colour of the progenitor candidate at explosion, and the consequences for stellar evolution. I also analyse archival pre-explosion images of the site of the Type Ib SN 2009jf, for which a progenitor was not detected. I attempt to constrain the age of the stellar population in the locale of the SN, and use this to set a limit on the progenitor mass. I also extend the time- and volume-limited sample of core-collapse SNe presented by Smartt et al. (2009). I use this new data, together with an improved re-analysis of the original limits of Smartt et al., to set an upper limit on the mass of Type IIP and Type IIL SN progenitors of 20M, at a 95 per cent confidence level. This limit is lower than the most massive observed red supergiants, providing strong support for suggestions that some of the most massive red supergiants do not produce bright SNe, but rather collapse to form black holes either directly or via fall-back. Finally, I discuss some alternative approaches for understanding core-collapse SNe and their progenitors, including searching for progenitors in X-ray data, a survey for optically faint failed SNe, and a deeper search for a surviving companion to the progenitor of the Galactic SN Cas A.

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Pomeranz, Ryan. "Theodore is Dying: From Development Through Distribution." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5689.

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Theodore Is Dying is a feature length film written and directed by Ryan Ceri Pomeranz. It was undertaken as a partial fulfillment of the requirements to receive a Master of Fine Arts in Film and Digital Media from the Department of Film in the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Central Florida. The film aims to explore both the immediate and the long-term effects of choices made by four people at specific moments of demarcation in their lives. Structurally, the film is presented in an episodic and non- linear style that attempts to examine each protagonist's own set of conflicts, while simultaneously exposing how the choices they make affect one another. The film's production presented many unique challenges to our producing team, cast and crew such as shooting on location in Scranton, Pennsylvania over one thousand miles from home and figuring out where to allocate funds from our “ultra-low” budget. These challenges were met head on and often times acted as catalysts for rethinking the way that films at our budget level could be produced. As a result, the account of the making of Theodore Is Dying, from development through distribution, aims to contribute these ideas to the larger conversation about the role of Ultra-Low Budget Filmmaking in the modern filmmaking era.
M.F.A.
Masters
Visual Arts and Design
Arts and Humanities
Film; Entrepreneurial Digital Cinema

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Forbes, Karen. "Teaching and learning about death and dying." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.434784.

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Routt, James O'Neal. "Dying and rising with Christ in Colossians." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1995. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14701/.

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Colossians was written to a congreaation threatened by a jewish mystical teaching which offered a proleptic experience of salvation in the form of visionary journeys to heaven. To counter this false teaching the writer reminds the readers of the blessinas they already possess, centrina his araument around their participation with Christ in his death and resurrection. Christ himself is identified as God's end-time aaent of reconciliation and new creation, who, throuah his death and resurrection, restores the cosmos to the state of harmony God intended from the beainnina (1:ll-20). To accompllsh this tast Christ identified himself with humanity's fallen state and made himself responsible for their sins. By dying their death he secured acquittal before the divine tribunal and victory over the hostile spirits (2:13-15). In his triumphal passage from death to new life he inaugurated the new age and became the founder of the new redeemed human race as a second Adam (1:18). In these eventl Christ acted in a representative capacity so that his experience of deliverance might be both the basis and the prototype of the salvation or believers. In conversion-baptism ChrIstians become participants in ChrIst's death and resurrection as God includes them in his saving acts towards Christ by pronouncing on them the same verdict of acquittal and exercising anew the same life-giving power towards them as when he raised Christ from the dead. Thus they are made to pass with Christ out of the old fallen existence in which they were subject to the hostile spirits and the reliaious rules and reaulations (stoicheia) of this world, and they enter the heavenly life of the new creation. Although Christians have been raised with Christ (as Paul also atrirms in Rom 6), they possess this new life only in preliminary form and in hiddenness (3:3). They must yet strive to actualize this salvation by putting to death what remains within of the old existence (3:5-11) and cultivating Christlike virtues as they await the parousia, when they will enter upon this resurrection life in its fullness (3:4).

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Balkan, William Howard. "A specialized ministry to a dying congregation." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Niederriter, Joan E. "Student nurses' perception of death and dying." Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1246756404.

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Thesis ( Ph.D.)--Cleveland State University, 2009.
Abstract. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on July 22, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 146-160). Available online via the OhioLINK ETD Center and also available in print.

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Tyler, Holley. "Nursing Education on Caring for the Dying." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3329.

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Healthcare teams can implement care initiatives to promote a positive dying experience. However, there is a lack of knowledge related to how best to care for dying patients. Nurses do not receive extensive training in nursing school to care for patients at the end of life, yet most, at some point in their careers, experience the provision of this type of care. It is important to ensure that nurses caring for dying patients have been educated about end-of-life care. The purpose of the quality improvement project was to address the lack of end-of-life care education among critical care nurses in an acute care hospital by implementing and testing the effectiveness of an end-of-life care educational program. Kolcaba's theory of comfort was chosen as the theoretical framework for the project. Registered nurses (n = 34) employed on a critical care unit participated in the one-group pretest/posttest design project. The nurses completed the Healthstream online end-of-life care education, and knowledge improvement was determined through comparison of pretest and posttest scores. Descriptive tests were completed to determine the mean score. The descriptive data analysis and tests showed that participants' level of end-of-life care knowledge improved after they completed the formalized educational program. Participants' scores increased from pretest (68% to 100% correct answers) to posttest (93% to 100% correct answers). The primary populations benefiting from the project are nurses, dying patients, and family members of dying patients. The social change implication of the findings is that if nurses receive education on end-of-life nursing, increased knowledge of appropriate care for dying patients is expected.

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Verbeek, Laetitia. "Care and quality of life in the dying phase the contributiion of the Liverpool Care Pathway for the dying patient /." [S.l.] : Rotterdam : [The Author] ; Erasmus University [Host], 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/13429.

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John, Susan P. "Drying without Dying| The Resurrection Fern Pleopeltis polypodioides." Thesis, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10601789.

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The focus of this research project was to determine the response of Pleopeltis to drought and heat stress. P. polypodioides, an epiphyte, is known to survive extended periods of desiccation and recover when water (rain) becomes available. Such mechanism is a characteristic feature of special group of ?desiccation tolerant? plants. Not all vascular plants are capable of tolerating water stress. Desiccation tolerance occurs throughout the plant kingdom and is commonplace among lichens, mosses, but is rare among pteridophytes and angiosperms. Most studies have focused on the phylogenetics and evolution of desiccation tolerant plants. However, information on the biochemical and molecular mechanisms of drought tolerance is limited. Pteridophytes are good candidates to study desiccation tolerance because they possess characteristics that are intermediate between primitive and advanced land plants. The goal of the research was to determine the morphological and anatomical, physiological, and molecular adjustments during dehydration and rehydration of Pleopeltis fronds. The findings aim to characterize the mechanisms of P. polypodioides to desiccation and identify potential genes that are associated with the drought-tolerance. The findings from this study may be useful in engineering dehydration tolerant crop plants in the future.

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Garossino, Candance Jo. "Nurses' attitudes towards the care of the dying." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29709.

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Terminally ill patients and their families describe hospital care as nonsupportive to their needs during the final phase of life. Nurses generally are not comfortable with a supportive role when caring for the dying and tend to adhere to a curative role. The purpose of this descriptive, correlational study therefore was to describe the attitudes of general staff nurses working on medical-surgical units in hospitals towards the care of the dying and to ascertain the relationship between these attitudes and the education and experience of the nurses. An adaptation of the model for role episode, conflict, and ambiguity by Kahn, Wolfe, Quinn, Snoek and Rosenthal (1964) was the applied theoretical framework. The sample consisted of 197 randomly selected registered nurses employed full or part-time on general adult medical-surgical hospital units in British Columbia. The majority of the sample were married, Protestant females, between the ages of 26 and 45 years who were prepared at the diploma level in nursing. The mean length of time worked as a nurse was 8.5 years with a mean of 7.5 years on medical-surgical units. Attitudes towards the care of the dying were generally ambiguous, neither negative nor positive as measured by scores obtained on the ‘Questionnaire for Understanding the Dying Person and His Family’. Additionally, half the respondents did not believe that nurses should be the primary health care professionals equipped to deal with the emotional reactions of the dying yet three-quarters of the sample believed that patients turned to nurses to discuss such emotional issues. Data revealed that close to two-thirds of the respondents had received structured death and dying content in their basic nursing education yet less than half furthered their death and dying education since graduation. Overall death education for the sample was low. A small positive correlation (r=-0.26) was found between respondents' death education and their attitudes towards the care of the dying; no significant association was found between respondents' level of general nursing education and their attitudes. Although there was variability in the amount of professional and personal death experience, over half of the respondents experienced between one and three terminally ill patient deaths on their medical-surgical units per month. Additionally, the majority of respondents had experienced the death of an immediate family member. Overall death experience was low to moderate. A small, but significant positive correlation (r=0.24) was found between overall death experience and attitudes' towards the care of the dying; no significant association was found between general experience and attitude. Findings suggest that supportive nursing care is not being demonstrated with dying patients and their families. However, the influencing natures of death education and death experience on nurses' attitudes are positive, thereby providing the nursing profession with two possible ways of positively influencing nurses' attitudes to the care of the dying.
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Paul, Lindsay, and lindsay1645@bigpond com. "Caring for dying parents : an existential phenomenological approach." La Trobe University. School of Public Health, 2002. http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au./thesis/public/adt-LTU20080222.152124.

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The death of one�s parents, irrespective of the age at which it occurs, is generally regarded as a life experience of considerable significance. The last few years of an elderly person�s life are often characterized by increasing frailty, declining health and loss of independence. Responsibility for the spiritual and physical care of parents during that period is undertaken by many adult children. Current research in this area is generally informed by the requirements of social policy, which, by identifying and addressing the inherent difficulties in this so-called informal caring, is designed to support carers in the community. The research reported in this thesis represents a departure from this mode of inquiry and seeks, rather, to explore the existential aspects of caring in this particular situation, from the carer�s perspective. To achieve this objective, an existential phenomenological approach informed principally by the philosophies of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, and the adaptation of these philosophies by Schutz, Giorgi and van Manen to social science research, was developed to suit the particular requirements of the topic. In addition to the author�s autobiographic material, primary sources include conversations with five people who had been principal carers for their parents during their final illnesses. In all cases caring had ended with the parent�s death at least one year before the conversations took place. The principal secondary sources are Simone de Beauvoir�s memoir, A Very Easy Death, and Philip Roth�s account of his father�s illness and death, Patrimony: A True Story. In addition, the argument is supported throughout by reference to other literary works. From these sources a number of major existential themes, including temporality, hope, suffering, and knowing the body, have been explored in depth, in conjunction with relevant existential theories. Synthesis of these topics suggests that in this particular circumstance, for the people involved in the study, the phenomenon of caring can be understood as an unconditional engagement with the life and concerns of their parent at the end of life, and can be interpreted within an existential framework as representing an authentic way of Being.

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Hegarty, Benjamin. "Attitudes among Swedish medical students towards assisted dying." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-90275.

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IntroductionOver the last decades a positive shift in attitudes towards legalisation of assisted dying (AD) (AD including euthanasia (EUT) and physician-assisted suicide (PAS)) have occurred in western Europe. Physicians are generally more negative than the general public toward legalisation. Medical students’ attitudes, as future practitioners, are important to assess when addressing this ethically complex issue.AimThe aim was to explore the attitudes among medical students at Örebro university, Sweden regarding assisted dying and their stance on the legalisation of assisted dying and to evaluate if religious beliefs, current term of study, gender, and a shift of legal framing would affect medical students´ attitudes.MethodsA cross-sectional online-based anonymous survey containing eight different patient scenarios was distributed to all medical students enlisted at Örebro university Sweden (n=657). Association between demographics and positive attitudes towards AD was tested using logistic regression, and McNemar for difference of proportion in attitudes between various scenario framings.ResultsThirty five percent (n=229) of the medical students responded with completed questionnaires. Sixty percent of the respondents believed PAS for terminally ill patients should be legalized in Sweden. Shifting of legal framing resulted in statistically significant differences of position in all eight scenarios (p<0.05). Strong religious beliefs were associated with decreased likelihood for positive attitudes towards AD in scenario 1-6 (p<0.05).ConclusionsMost respondents in this study believed PAS should be legalised. Held attitudes toward AD were affected by religious beliefs and legal framework. Additional studies to further explore medical students´ attitudes are deemed necessary.

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Morris, Dan. "Assistance in dying : a rights analysis in context." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.432978.

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Black, Rachel Jane. "Living with dying children : the suffering of parents." Thesis, University of Kent, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.590025.

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Although the relief of suffering and emotional support are fundamental to children's palliative care, their empirical study has been limited. The research questions for this study address three areas: the lived experience of parents of dying children; how other people's responses shape the parents' lived experience; and the place of emotion and suffering in the parents' lived experience. Implementing a qualitative strategy, a collective case study was undertaken in a children's hospice in England, with fieldwork completed between March 2008 and September 2009. Data was collected with nine parents using a range of tools including a focus group, participant observation, documentary observation and individual interviews. Within-case and cross-case modified grounded theory analysis facilitated clarification of emerging themes whilst preserving individual parent voices. The findings show that parents of dying children had existential issues put at stake through the emotional experience of parenting a dying child; these included their identity, place in society, time, and relationships. Such losses could constitute suffering, but in addition they limited the parents' interaction with society so that over time both the 'quantity' and 'quality' of intersubjectivity reduced. The parents perceived that other people tended not to legitimate their lived experience. Emotion was an important influence in this process. The parents of dying children managed their emotions, particularly those of a negative nature, in everyday life and when using hospice services. As a result they expressed somewhat inauthentic accounts of their felt experience, reframed according to perceived feeling rules. This also reduced intersubjectivity and supported the delegitimation of the parental experience. In conclusion, delegitimation of the parental experience stems from feeling rules which are derived from day to day interactions and contemporary social policy. Suffering may be prevented if individual experience is legitimated through improved intersubjectivity. A key factor for this is effective communication through which observers engage with the felt emotion of the suffering individual.

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Kincaid, Kristian. "Living with dying a pastoral and congregational guide /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p020-0254.

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Tomlinson, E. J. "Former carers' views on assisted dying in dementia." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2013. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1407695/.

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Overview This volume is in three sections. Part 1: The literature review examines the available research into the views of the general public, health professionals, people with dementia and carers towards assisted dying in cases of dementia. It considers the evidence for factors associated with people’s views. Seventeen studies of variable quality met the criteria for the review. Health professionals appear to hold the most restrictive views on assisted dying; however opinions within each population group are divided and associated with factors such as age, ethnicity, gender and religion. The methodological limitations of the reviewed studies are discussed and recommendations are made for further research. Part 2: The empirical paper reports on an exploratory qualitative study of former carers’ views on assisted dying in cases of dementia. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 former carers; transcripts were analysed thematically. Whilst support for the right to die with dementia was common, the complexity of assisted dying in cases of dementia was also acknowledged. The motivating factors for and against an assisted death are revealed and former carers’ views about talking with a health professional if contemplating an assisted death are described. Part 3: The critical appraisal is a reflection on the process of designing and executing the research presented in Part 2. It discusses some of the methodological issues which arose during the study before finally attending to the influence of the research on the researcher, which reference to personal reflexivity.

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Hiley, Victoria. "In Pursuit of a Good Death: Managing Changing Sensibilities Toward Death and Dying." University of Sydney, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/2611.

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This thesis challenges a number of claims that are made in the context of the euthanasia debate: that there is only one version of the good death; that rights discourse is the most appropriate vehicle by which to secure legal recognition of a right to die; that the Netherlands is either a model for reform or the epitome of a slippery slope in its regulation of euthanasia; and that a key argument in the euthanasia debate, the sanctity of life doctrine, is a fixed, immutable concept. In this thesis I use process sociology, developed by Norbert Elias, in order to capture changing sensibilities toward death and dying in the common law jurisdictions (Australia, England, the United States of America, Canada and New Zealand) and in the Netherlands. At the same time I analyse changing attitudes among key groups whose work impacts upon the euthanasia debate namely, parliamentarians, law reform bodies, the judiciary and medical associations. My aim in adopting this approach is threefold. First of all, to examine evolving attitudes to death and dying in order to determine whether the institutions of law and medicine are responding in an adequate manner to changing sensibilities in the common law countries and in the Netherlands. Secondly, to highlight shifting balances of power within the euthanasia debate. Thirdly, to assess whether the various options for reform that I discuss are workable or not. In this thesis I show that there appears to be a sensibility of support in the common law countries for euthanasia to be legally available when an adult is terminally ill, is experiencing pain that he or she cannot bear and has expressed a wish to die (the typical euthanasia scenario). However, the situation is far from clear cut. The methods adopted by one of the ways of measuring sensibilities, opinion polls, suggest that sensibilities may not always be well-informed. Further, attitudes within and between key groups are not uniform or settled. In the context of this unsettled state of affairs, I show that responses to changing sensibilities from law and medicine in the common law jurisdictions are far from satisfactory. So far as legal responses are concerned, case law outcomes in right to die applications suggest a lack of flexibility. Outcomes in prosecutions following active voluntary euthanasia or assisted suicide reveal a non-application of established legal principles and suggest that the courts do not focus, squarely, upon the real issues at stake in the euthanasia debate. Medical responses are similarly less than optimal due to a tendency to de-emphasise existential (emotional) pain which, research shows, is the prime motivating factor in requests to be assisted to die sooner. Responses to changing sensibilities to death and dying in the Netherlands are also unsatisfactory because of the disorganised manner in which euthanasia was legalised and because regulation is inadequate. I come to the conclusion that there are three ways in which we could possibly resolve these problems and increase the flexibility of responses to changing sensibilities toward death and dying. They are as follows: by legalising euthanasia; by permitting a defence of necessity; or, by liberalising the use of terminal sedation in end-of-life care. Of these three, I conclude, in light of shifting sensibilities and overall negative attitudes among key groups to euthanasia, that the last is the most appropriate option at the present time. In closing, I address some of the larger issues at stake in the euthanasia debate. In particular, I deal with the effect that changing sensibilities toward the process of dying have had upon human social life, leading to the problematic situation that Elias referred to as the ‘loneliness of the dying’.

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Bertoia, Judi. "Drawings from a dying child : a case study approach." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28964.

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Only in the past two decades have adults become aware that terminally ill children do know at some level when they are dying. This research used a case study format to investigate the changes in how one child dying of leukemia viewed herself. Specifically, it looked for symbolic and emotional themes which emerged in the material, including Decathexis (separation) and Rebirth. Each of twenty-eight drawings created by this child was analyzed in-depth for content by the researcher. Convergent material from hospital records and a parent journal supplemented the stories and teacher notes accompanying the drawings. Six experts from three countries also categorized each drawing for images of Decathexis and Rebirth. Initially, themes of threats, dreams, trickery and intuition appeared along with fear and sadness. Once the child seemed to clearly understand that she would die, these changed to fading and distancing images, indicative of separation. There was a slight increase in images supporting themes of resignation and happiness. Physical deterioration and resistance appeared throughout the series as distortions of a girl and dilapidated and edged houses. Themes of a new home and travel also appeared throughout. The classification by experts according to Decathexis and Rebirth resulted in unanimous agreement on twenty-five per cent of the pictures and two thirds of the experts agreed on the placement of eighty-six per cent of the pictures. It would appear that on one level the child knew from the beginning that she would die, but at another level she resisted that knowledge for a time. As clear awareness of death was developing, defensive themes such as trickery and dreaming appeared in stories which accompanied the drawings. However, the images, themes and convergent material suggest that she reconciled the dual awareness levels and worked towards acceptance of her fate.
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White, R. L. Jr. "Death, dying, and grieving: Providing a ministry of caring." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1996. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/AAIDP14689.

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This project dissertation, entitled Death, Dying, and Grieving: Providing a Ministry of Caring, approaches the issue of establishing a ministry of caring for parishioners who are experiencing grief. Also included in this work is how the disciplines of sociology, anthropology, archaeology and psychology have attempted to address the issue of death and grief. A biblical history of death, dying, and grief is discussed and a theological framework for grieving. The dissertation gives a description of the development of a counseling group, support group and all of the intricacies involved in the institution of a ministry of caring for the Mount Ephraim Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Russell, Rupert Henry. "Dying of Encouragement: From Pitch to Production in Hollywood." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10803.

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Social scientists have long held that the media has a profound effect on modern societies. However, the cultural production of motion pictures and television shows has largely been neglected as a topic of inquiry. The following dissertation seeks to fill this lacuna in the current research by offering a systematic, comprehensive, and comparative analysis of the industry known colloquially as "Hollywood." Specifically, this dissertation seeks to uncover the matrix of causal processes that filter the infinite array of potential television shows and motion pictures to the chosen few that are selected for production. This process is known as "development and green lighting." Drawing from 110 interviews with writers, directors, producers, agents, managers, studio executives, network executives, financiers, and assistants who had been involved in the development and green lighting process, I explore not just decision making but the social milieu within which those decisions were made. Over the course of three chapters, three distinct social processes are examined in turn: institutional scripts ("Formulas"), status ("Stars"), and social capital ("Relationships"). Throughout the thesis, a new approach to cultural production is carried out, based on an inductive methodology where micro-level social processes are examined in the context of macro-level struggles over legitimacy, power, and resources.
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Gilthvedt, Gary E. "Dying 'through the law to the law' (Gal. 2.19)." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2791.

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In the Letter to the Galatians the law has been superseded by Christ's cross and faith in Christ is contrasted to the law. The juxtaposition of the law and the cross occurs in 2.19, where Paul speaks of them in terms of dying and living. The purpose of the present study is to do four things. First, Paul's letters have been examined for their uses in context of 'cross, crucifixion' and 'law', so that the basis for theological reflection might be the texts themselves. We conclude that although Paul's references to 'law' oscillate in stridency and meaning, and his references to 'cross, crucifixion' are few, the law and cross represent the before and after of Paul's life. Second, our exegesis of Gal 2.19 leads to three observations. 'Dying to-living to' refers to death and life within specific relationships, that to law and that with God. 'Being crucified with' refers to Paul's own inclusion and participation in the death of Christ, so that when Christ died Paul also died. 'Through the law' indicates the death-bringing character of the law itself. Behind Paul's statements about dying and living are the death and resurrection of Christ, which serve as the frame of reference for Paul. Third, Gal 2.19 has been compared to the argument of Galatians 2-3,4.1-7, and Paul's summary statement in 6.14-15. Our test question is what Paul means by dying 'through law' and whether law should be understood as the cause of death. s Finally, it is the conclusion of this study that Paul views the law as death-bringer, causing the death of Christ and the death of Paul in relation to law. This heightens the singularly life-giving character of faith in Christ.

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Exley, Catherine Elizabeth. "Living with cancer : living with dying : the individual's experience." Thesis, Coventry University, 1998. http://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/94145345-36cc-92ad-7d6f-f8aae99dc41d/1.

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This thesis explores the experience of living with cancer and a terminal prognosis from the dying individual's perspective. It is based on qualitative sociological research. My study group comprised nineteen hospice patients, eighteen women and one man, aged 27 to 67, all of whom had been diagnosed with cancer. Thirty focused interviews were conducted; each respondent was interviewed at least once with a sub-group being interviewed a second or third time dependent upon symptoms, willingness to participate again and the need to explore issues further. My thesis is a sociological account of respndents' views and experiences. Its focus is the management and negotiation of dying and death at an individual level. A central tenet of my thesis is how self-identity is constructed and negotiated in different social encounters, in both the public and the private sphere. With reference to the public sphere I consider respondents' experiences of communicating with health professionals, and the difficulties they encountered. Within this discussion I look at how respondents constructed understandings of their illness within the context of their own biographies. I also discuss individuals' experiences of treatment, and the choices they made about this. In addition, I examine respondents' hopes and fears for their own deaths, and I suggest the notion of a 'good enough' death may be useful in interpreting their views. Repsondents perceived they had a spoiled identity as a result of their cancer and dying status. As a result, they spent a great deal of time and effort engaging in emotional work, in order to reassert their more valued roles. Much has been written about the emotional work of paid and unpaid carers. Here I suggest attention must also be given to the work of dying individuals themselves. However, I do not conceive of this emotional work as selfless, rather I suggest such work has benefits for individuals themselves. Emotional work enabled them to reaffirm or renegotiate more valued self-identities while alive, but in addition, I suggest that it also meant that respondents were able to contribute towards their own 'disembodied' after-death identities.

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