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The Dead with No Wake, Grieving with No Closure: Illness and Death in the Days of Coronavirus in Spain
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Facultad/Centro
Área de conocimiento
Título de la revista
Journal of Religion and Health
Número de la revista
1
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Fernández, Ó., & González-González, M. (2022). The Dead with No Wake, Grieving with No Closure: Illness and Death in the Days of Coronavirus in Spain. Journal of Religion and Health, 61(1), 703-721. https://doi.org/10.1007/S10943-020-01078-5
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Springer
Fecha
2020
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0022-4197
Resumen
[EN] The pandemic caused by the spread of Covid-19 is giving rise to an exceptional
social situation because of the great speed of propagation of the illness and the high
level of mortality it has occasioned in a very short time. Moreover, the lockdown
measures decreed in Spain prohibit the holding of wakes to avoid contagion, and
limit funerals to three people plus the ofciant. Thus, coronavirus is robbing people
of the opportunity of a fnal farewell, stripping the dead of their dignity and worsening the grief of the living. This article investigates the situation and the social
and cultural impact it has provoked. The method used takes the line of critical dialogue analysis (CDA) applied to information contained in the mass media, employing qualitative material from a related small-scale study. The results show that in
countries like Spain where there is a strong Roman Catholic tradition the importance of these rituals is unquestionable. Although the country has become laicized
over recent years, many traditions around death are still maintained. Hence, the
impossibility of holding funerals is triggering a large number of social and personal
conficts. Furthermore, they indicate that lockdown, and the lack of rituals and of
accompaniment constitute some of the most crucial stressors in the epidemic. Grief
in solitude has become widespread and all the more fundamental in a society that
values social support from close friends and family members. The conclusions show
that the social distancing imposed by the epidemic is especially hard to bear when
relatives are passing into death.
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