Death and Grief in the Greek Culture
| Autor: | Efi Parpa, Kyriaki Mystakidou, Lambros Vlahos, Emmanuela Katsouda, Eleni Tsilika |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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education.field_of_study 021103 operations research Health (social science) business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Population 0211 other engineering and technologies 050109 social psychology 02 engineering and technology Immortality Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Grief Afterlife Sociology Life-span and Life-course Studies Greek mythology education Soul business media_common |
| Zdroj: | OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying. 50:23-34 |
| ISSN: | 1541-3764 0030-2228 |
| DOI: | 10.2190/yyau-r4mn-akkm-t496 |
| Popis: | None would disagree that death is the great separator. Death has many meanings, and they change with culture and society. In the Greek mythology, the dead journeyed to the Afterlife, ruled by Hades. Death was not perceived as an end in and by itself, but rather as another “world” to belong to. By Classical times there was a rise to burial rituals and commemorative practices, carried out throughout the centuries. Christian religion attempted to change the way the dead were mourned, and preached the immortality of the soul and resurrection of the dead. Nevertheless, the way people grieved and buried their dead has not changed much. The only change is a difficulty in the receptiveness of burial procedures, observed in large cities and in younger population. Today in Greece, the perceptions and practices on grief and death derive both on the ancient and the Christian Orthodox traditions. |
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