Autonomie der Trauer Zur Ambivalenz des sozialen Wandels

• Main Author: Benkel, Thorsten (auth)
• Other Authors: Preuß, Dirk (auth), Meitzler, Matthias (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Published: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG 2019
• Series: Dimensionen der Sorge
• Subjects: Thanatologie; Tod; Selbstbestimmung; Sozialer Wandel; Umgang mit Trauernden; Bestattungsgesetz; Methodologie; Grab; Ethik des Trauerns; Interview; Sinnkonstruktion; Friedhofskultur; Gesellschaftliche Transformation; Kremation; Trauer; Bestattungskultur; Mitbestimmung; Trauererfahrungen
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Funeral culture is changing rapidly. In recent years, graveyards and burial rituals in Germany have altered significantly. They no longer reflect mechanisms of collective sense-making; instead, they represent individual lifeworlds. Death and the decisions and actions surrounding it have, in effect,...