Aged people: attitude to death and tanatical worries

Aged people:
attitude to death and tanatical worries


Еlutina М.E.

Dr. Sci. (Sociol.), Prof., Head of the Chair of Social Work Sociology, Saratov National Research State University named after N.G. Chernyshevsky, Saratov, Russia. elutina133@mail.ru

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Rubric: Social politics. Social structure

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Еlutina М.E. Aged people: attitude to death and tanatical worries. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological Studies]. 2015. No 10. P. 111-119


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Abstract

Based on the use of qualitative methodology, meaning’s localization of death in the space of life of the elderly people is discussed in context of traditional views dominated by material and economic considerations connected to death. It is shown that high price of death and awareness of financial insolvency give rise to various kinds of preventive practices.


Keywords
attitude to death; death price; funeral services; death anxiety
Content No 10, 2015