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How to introduce children to the topic of death?
BRISUDOVÁ, Eva
In this thesis I follow up the question How can we communicate with children in a question of death. I mainly focus on dying, acceptance of death and what are the effects that death can have on children i describe historical and current views of the death from sociological perpective. I compare the differences of burials in various countries. Burials are closely related with the topics like grief and remembrance of survivors. The work also shows views of children's literature on the subject of death. This literature has become a guide for understanding the child's feelings perceived in personal contact with death. It also says how the child accept and how it is influenced by death. Finally, it points out the importance of communication and explanation of the current situation of the child. The main role does family or professional assistance that should be provided to the child. The contribution of this work to see that the critically summarized on Czech literature and briefly compared to abroad.
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Romanies and their attitude to death and dying nowadays: The Romany funeral
VÍTKOVÁ, Jana
The degree work deals with the present attitude of Romanies to death and dying, and especially the Romany funeral. The work aim is the reflexion on the Romany perspective of death and dying including their special characteristics (customs, rituals, traditions) in view of these days. The work is divided into four chapters, in which theoretical and practical knowledge is entwined and complemented. The first three chapters dwell on death, life after death and funeral rituals in general, and further on Romany history connected to their death and dying and contemporary Romany funeral traditions, including Romany faith in afterlife and spirits of the dead. The last chapter of the degree work summarizes the knowledge of the previous three chapters, and it is the very mentioned reflexion of the attitude of Romanies to death and dying.
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How do the bereaved cope with the death of their loved ones and how can we help them?
URBÁNEK, Lukáš
The thesis deals with the topic of how the bereaved cope with the death of their loved ones and how one could help them in their crisis situation. It aims to compare the information gathered in a research carried out in the Strakonice district with the results known in scientific literature. The bachelor?s thesis focuses particularly on the mourning of the bereaved; however, it also outlines the issues of death and funeral which are closely related to the death of a loved one. It takes into account the results of the respondents? answers on what kind of death they first encountered, at what age and what their feelings were. A large part of the thesis deals with what a loss of a loved one means to the bereaved. The thesis focuses on processing grief of the bereaved respondents and who and what helped them the most when coping with the death of a loved one. Furthermore, it suggests some possibilities of non-professional and professional help for the bereaved and their comparison with the respondents? experience. The gathered empirical data are scrutinized and compared with scientific literature. There is also an intention to devise a creative project which might enrich our knowledge about the phenomenon of death and mourning.
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Maria Justina of Schwarzenberg. The Image of (ill) Duchess in the Middle of the 17th century
TLAMSOVÁ, Hanka
The aim of the present Bachelor´s thesis is to reconstruct the life story of Maria Justina of Schwarzenberg, born of Starhemberg in the Middle of the 17th century. In the first part, this thesis focuses on the everyday life behind the walls of the residences that belonged to the House of Schwarzenberg. The thesis then deals with the serious mental illness the Duchess had suffered from, with her death and with the funeral ceremony that took place afterwards. In conclusion, the thesis investigates the way how the servants reacted on the behaviour of the Duchess towards them, it tries to identify the exact cause of the mental illness and to describe some sort of treatments the Duchess had to undergo. The present Bachelor´s thesis is based on the correspondence between John Adolf I., Prince of Schwarzenberg, the husband of Maria Justina of Schwarzenberg, and regional council presidents of family holdings. In addition, further background information has been gathered from the diaries and Tagzettel of Cardinal Ernst Adalbert of Harrach.
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South Moravian country in the second half of the nineteenth century
TROJAN, Jan
This diploma thesis deals with South Moravian country in the second half of the nineteenth century. It is based on the analysis of fifty testaments written in Znojmo judicial country. The first chapter shadows life in rural area of South Moravia in the second half of the nineteenth century. The second chapter focuses on the analysis of the testaments and their formal side. It mentions common features of a testament as a source of repetitive character and features according to which wills might bee partly considered as sources of personal character. The third chapter analyses elderly homes that were part sof the examined last wills. The last chapter devotes to a country funeral {--} its preparation, course and expense.
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"Death, Death, you are always so carving of lives." Mortality and funeral ritual in Cheb in the second half of 19th century
KOLOUCHOVÁ, Jana
Presented theses deals with the phenomenon of death in the second half of 19th century on the example of the area around the Cheb town. The source base is made up by information of Christian registers of deaths, by prescriptive regulations and tangible evidences. As a main methodological basis the Historical Demography was chosen,but the other approaches were used as a Historical Anthropology and Art History. The most important emphasis was oriented on getting results from statistical research. The index of death issues was researched from several circumstances. Not only the data of approximate Life expectancy, infant mortality and seasonal movement was reached but also the analysis of the causes of death was made. The attention was oriented on infectious diseases too. The question of spread of epidemics is given into the wider context in the subsequent chapter, which is devoted to influence to prevent the gradual lengthening of life expectancy. The attention was devoted to the analysis of preserved tombstones from the 2nd half of 19th century on the base of fieldwork. The artifacts were assessed from the point of view of artistic representation. The epitaphs were recorded too for the identification of specific persons. The end of this topic was the thought of vandalism of modern time and the importance of preservation of the testimonial of funeral culture. The main aim of presented theses is to find out, what were the mortality situations at the monitored period but also the changes of funeral rite influenced by emancipation of bourgeois society. The connection with early modern period tradition of colossal noble funeral ceremony was pointed out. The complexity was amplified by the analysis of the term ?the Death? presented on the pages of Glossaries from that time and by the excursion into the folk?s habits connected with the end of life journey of rural population. For obtaining the complete view, there was necessary to work not only with results of statistics, but also to consider the interdisciplinary approach.
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Children´s death and dying in the baroque epoche in Czech countries
SKALICKÁ, Terezie
This work refers to the questions of dying and death during the baroque epoche and is mainly focused on children?s age. It reflects the view of death and dying, conception of good death, notions of eternal life and the funeral ceremony. Within the context of infant age it ? above all ? inquires into infantile mortality, the connection between breast-feeding and the measure of mortality and the importance of baptism. It appears from demographic research on family and draws attention to the relation between the high measure of natality and mortality. It tries to find out causes of infant mortality ? population undernourishment, absence of medical care, easy spread of contagious diseases, wars and demographic crises, female condition and employment. It also inquires into the parents? attitude towards children and their death, and tries to disclose their intellectual and emotional life, whereto the analysis of memoirs by Alžběta Lidmila from Lisov helps distinctively. In relation to mortality it also doesn?t pass the situation of natural children.
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The Presentation of Death and Dying in The Media and The Influence of The Presentation on The Process of Forming The Attitude towards Death
KADLECOVÁ, Hana
The thesis deals with mass media and the way they treat the presentation of death and dying. Trying to find an answer to the question of whether mass media can have an impact on changing attitudes of contemporary human being to death and dying. The thesis is divided into nine parts. The first four sections form the theoretical framework and characterize today's postmodern society, typical features of contemporary human being ?s behavior, his/her perception of the world and themselfves, the influ nce of education, culture and beliefs. The thesis also deals with the position of mass media in postmodern society, and briefly describes current research on the influence of mass media on people. It mentions the most common dividing of mass media technologies into television, radio, print and the Internet. On this theoretical framework is consequently based the analysis of the presentation of death and dying in various types of media - this part of the thesis is more practically oriented and is complemented by a number of pictorial material. It tries to capture the most significant features of the presentation of death and dying on TV (news, film, advertising) and radio (news and some opinion programs), in the broadsheets and tabloids as well as on internet news, blogs and social networks and also in internet advertising. The thesis concludes that the current mass media are nearly oversaturated with the death and dy ng topic, making the viewer (reader, listener) apathetic and easily accustomed to continuously increasing greater violence. Death pictured by media is unnatural and often violent, in which significantly collides with the lived reality. Media cause devaluation of death and lower its importance, which causes declining empathy towards the diseased and dying as well as the absence of respect for the deceased.
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Burial Rituals
BOHOŇKOVÁ, Denisa
This work mainly deals with burial rituals and a way of handling with dead bodies from past times to the presence. The first chapter tries to define basic terms speci-fied by various authors. The second chapter deals with a description of burial ritu-als during present and past times. This chapter mainly focuses on the Czech tradi-tion and is completed by G. Maiell{\crq}s research on contemporary exploitation of crematoriums. The third part of the work deals with the burial rituals of pre-Christian cultures in Europe, especially Celtic, Germanic and Slavonic traditions. The fourth chapter focuses especially on the rituals of noneuropean cultures, e.g. Chinese or Islamic. The last part of this paper includes special ways of burying of dead bodies, e.g. children{\crq}s burials, burials of young people or dealing with dead bodies by unusual situations, e.g. during epidemic periods.
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Attitude of Modern People to Burial Rituals
RUDOLFOVÁ, Martina
There are many people who bury their close relatives without saying the last goodbye. In my work I tried to gather facts from history, humanities, sociology, psychology, theology and to relate them to the present situation in this sphere. i used my own experience and investigations from funeral parlours too.The objective of my work was to give resons and the current development of this, from historical point of view,unusual behaviour and to describe its consequences for both the society and human psyche.I also offered possibilities for the intervention of social worker
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