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T1 The Dead with No Wake, Grieving with No Closure: Illness and Death in the Days of Coronavirus in Spain
A1 Fernández Álvarez, Óscar
A1 González González, Miguel
A2 Antropologia Social
K1 Antropología social
K1 Bereavement
K1 Grieving
K1 Mourning
K1 Grief
K1 Covid-19
K1 Death
K1 Spain
K1 5103 Antropología Social
AB [EN] The pandemic caused by the spread of Covid-19 is giving rise to an exceptionalsocial situation because of the great speed of propagation of the illness and the highlevel of mortality it has occasioned in a very short time. Moreover, the lockdownmeasures decreed in Spain prohibit the holding of wakes to avoid contagion, andlimit funerals to three people plus the ofciant. Thus, coronavirus is robbing peopleof 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 socialand 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 incountries like Spain where there is a strong Roman Catholic tradition the importance of these rituals is unquestionable. Although the country has become laicizedover recent years, many traditions around death are still maintained. Hence, theimpossibility of holding funerals is triggering a large number of social and personalconficts. Furthermore, they indicate that lockdown, and the lack of rituals and ofaccompaniment constitute some of the most crucial stressors in the epidemic. Griefin solitude has become widespread and all the more fundamental in a society thatvalues social support from close friends and family members. The conclusions showthat the social distancing imposed by the epidemic is especially hard to bear whenrelatives are passing into death.
PB Springer
SN 0022-4197
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10612/18560
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10612/18560
NO 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
DS BULERIA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de León
RD 14-may-2024