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Homelessness and dying
Vondruška, Ondřej ; Ulrichová, Monika (advisor) ; Pěnkava, Pavel (referee)
The diploma thesis presents the personal experience of homeless people who have had someone close to them die while living on the streets. It introduces us to their ways of living on the streets, their relationship with their loved ones and the circumstances of their deaths. It reflects on what changed in their lives after the death of their loved one and whether their loved ones had the opportunity to mend their relationships, put things in order and fulfil their wishes before their death. The theoretical part defines basic concepts related to homelessness and concepts related to dying. The practical part contains transcripts of interviews with homeless people who have been in this situation. The final part analyses the interviews. It summarizes that homeless people did not have the opportunity to arrange their affairs before they died, due to the fact that their deaths were quick and unexpected. Their social situation prevented them from doing so and they were not aware of any available services. Interviews show that they expressed a wish to meet their loved ones and try to mend relations with them, which they did not manage to do. Neither their partner nor their friends had the opportunity to say goodbye at the funeral and they were unable to find out if and how the funeral took place. The survivors were...
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Absence of Rites of passage in liminal situations
NOVÁKOVÁ, Anna
This dissertation seeks to evaluate the absence of rites of passage in the context of indi-viduals´ marginal life situations. The aim of this research is to describe rites of passage and to highlight its importance in the contemporary age. Furthermore, it proposes an implementation of rites of passage in the area of social work due to its potential to aid in dealing with difficult life situations. For example, it can be used as a tool in group the-rapy for people with substance use disorder diagnosis, in social work with terminally ill patients or the bereaved dealing with grief. In addition to that, it is also a useful tool for the work woth adolescents going through multiple life changes. Conclusively, this dis-sertation proposes the rite of passage as a valuable tool for social work with many groups of people, and also seeks to encourage other social areas and individuals to im-plement rite of passage in their daily life.
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Farewell to the dying as important ritual in lives of bereaved
JINDROVÁ, Renata
The bachelor thesis is a theoretical analysis of the process of parting with the dying / deceased and its influence on the survivors. The introduction describes the process of dying and death in terms of history and from the present perspective. The following chapter describes the basic forms of parting, as we can understand them in the context of death and dying. Next chapters are devoted to individual forms of palliative care and dying in hospital treatment or at home. Subsequently, the work deals with death itself, its influence on the survivors and the process of mourning. The final part describes the possibilities of social work and counselling for both the dying and the survivors.
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Psychological and ethical aspects of the last things of man
KÜMMELOVÁ, Magda
The thesis deals with the very last issues of a person from the psychologically-ethical view, however it doesn't neglect the social view. With the topic is worked also in a context of selected current ethical systems, mainly deontologism and utilitarianism, also regarding the topic of the thesis, the topic of bioethics is discussed as well. Regarding the field of psychology, the thesis elaborates more in detail on the existential psychotherapy, actually also on the logotherapy, which was shaped by an Austrian psychologist Viktor E. Frankl. There is also included the problematics of burial, the possibilities of giving a last farewell, also in a religious and an ethnical point of view. The key part of the thesis deals mainly with a needed psychosocial care for the terminally ill, the dying and also their close ones, in the times of pre finem, in finem and post finem by the prospective death of adults, it deals also with the influence of this care on the experiencing of the final period of life of the dying, and the following grieving of the survivors. In the thesis is also shortly mentioned the topic of palliative and hospice care. The thesis also follows the evaluation of the influence of the last farewell on the process of the survivors' grieving. The inspiration for writing the thesis were apart from professional literature and other professional sources also to a bigger extent the many years of work experience of the author, thanks to which is the work supplemented with many own cases.
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Access to death and social work with the dying and their families
VIKTOROVÁ, Nikola
The bachelor's thesis deals with the phenomenon of death and dying which are defined in the first chapter. It also compares the access to death in the past time with the access to death nowadays. This thesis describes the forms of dying, funeral habits and rituals in the past and the concept of death nowadays. The last chapter deals with social work with dying people and their families, so it can serve as an inspiration for social work with this target group.
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Burn it and that's it? "Funeral without a ceremony" from the survivors' perspective
Gajdoš, Adam ; Spalová, Barbora (advisor) ; Grygar, Jakub (referee)
In the past couple of years, Czech press has repeatedly reported on the ascending number of funerals without any ceremony. Among the interpretations of the approximately 30% share of this kind of funeral were high level of secularization, disintegration of social bonds and the modern denial of death. The present thesis offers a change of perspectives and focuses the analysis of the phenomenon "funeral without a ceremony" on the acteur perspective. Based on the analysis of ten semi-structured interviews, the author 1) indentifies the motivations, attitudes and situational factors that build up the respondent's legitimations of the decision for a funeral without a ceremony; and 2) systematically analyses and interprets the ritual practices and symbolic action (ritualizations), which the respondents report in relation with the death of a close one. A detailed analysis of the respondents narratives shows, that a funeral without a ceremony organized by a certified undertaker does not necessarily mean that the death is devoid of ritual, framing it in a way meaningful to the respondents. In a final remark, the author discusses the application of Tony Walter's ideal types of approach to death (Walter 1996) and concludes that while current death and funerary practice in the Czech Republic appears to...
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