Obrzęd pogrzebowy a postawa wobec śmierci

Andrzej Stoiński

Published: 2018-10-161

No. 7 (2001)

Funeral Rite and Attitude in the Face of Death

Andrzej Stoiński

Abstract

Present-day’s man attitude to the death considerably differs from this one specific for past generations. This text considers relation between attitudes to the death and funeral ceremonies as well as transformations in this matter. Herein are investigated human’s reactions engendered by decease unfamiliar person, close person, and reflection about oneself death. Responses to unfamiliar person’s decease are general impressions about elapsing, to close person’s death - despair, to oneself - fear and grief. In this day and age the funeral ceremonies do not perform their former functions. This functions became warped. It seems that reasons of it’s state inhere in general transformation contemporary’s culture, particularly pointed out to youth, and efficiency. Appearance of the death however discloses increasing helplessness nowadays man to it.

Keywords:

death, funeral ceremony (ritual), attitude, unfamiliar person, close person, functions of funeral ritual, evolution of funeral ritual, expulsion, negation, rationalization

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Stoiński, A. (2018). Funeral Rite and Attitude in the Face of Death. Humanities and Natural Sciences, (7), 159–177. Retrieved from https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/hip/article/view/1783

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