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Changes in perceptions and attitudes towards death, dying, worship of the dead and burial

Grzegorz Bejda
,
Agnieszka Kułak
,
Andrzej Guzowski
,
Agnieszka Lankau
,
Mateusz Cybulski
,
Elżbieta Krajewska-Kułak

Medycyna Paliatywna 2014; 6(4): 190–198
Online publish date: 2015/03/27
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Over the centuries society’s perception of death than radical changes, as reported by Vuillemin, combining spiritual death and bodily transformation (which was an essential element of most religions and philosophical systems), the dehumanized medicalization of death at the present time. The development of medicine endured a clear boundary between life and death, has led to the institutionalization of death, and its perception. From a biological point of view, death is irreversible cessation of all operations system and metabolic processes in all of its cells. Death is comprehended as one of the fundamental elements of human existence, which affects the awareness of every man. This paper presents an analysis of changes in the perception and attitudes towards death, and the cult of the dead and burial.
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perception, death, the cult of the dead, burial

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