習俗としての死

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Death appears as a kind of discontinuation of human relationships. "Strangers' death" in a common sense among these relationships is essentially indifferent for myself, but death in my family circle is regarded as "others' death for myself". This "others' death" normally begins with the nursing of our dying nearrelatives, passes to the confirmation of death, and is completed with various funeral ceremonies for our understanding of death. Therefore, in this case, Death has to be considered as the object of nursing at first, and secondly as the object of confirmation and understanding. In Japan nursing is now usually done in the public facilities of hospitals, where the treatment of the dying person has serious meanings. Here we ask the quetion, "What does it mean for us to die in a hospital?" Our process of confirmation and understanding of "others' death" has produced a variety of the folkways in funeral ceremonies. These folkways acutually have many differences, acording not only to the tribes to which the deceased and their families belong, but also according to the religions that they believe in. Here we are going to mention the existential meanings of funeral ceremonies, showing examples in Christianity, Hinduhism and Buddism which are well known to the people all over the world.
東海大学の論文
1994-03-30