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A Deeken

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PubMed1995

Grief education and bereavement support in Japan.

This paper introduces the activities of the Japanese Association for Death Education and Grief Counseling, highlighting especially its grief education and bereavement support program. Because of greater life expectancy, most women in Japan will one day experience the death of their husbands, therefore pre-widowhood education programs are offered to married women in order to prepare them for widowhood. Memorial services, Buddhist, Christian and non-religious, are offered for bereaved persons. The search for a new self-identity after bereavement, the role of volunteer work, and the search for meaning in loss and bereavement are discussed. The issues of disenfranchised grief and grief after death from overwork are important themes in grief education.

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PubMed1995

[Death education as a way to improve the quality of life of cancer patients after a relapse].

Death education can help cancer patients to live the remaining days of their life more fully and thus can be helpful in improving their quality of life. Death education is not limited to learning only about dying and death. Death will eventually come to every human being; death education tries to teach a person how to live creatively and in a truly human way till the very end and thus can rightly be called life education. Especially after a relapse a cancer patient experiences an increase of fear and anxiety towards death. Death education can help to recognize the different types of fear and anxiety and to reduce exaggerated fear to a normal level. In order to achieve a death with dignity there is a need for total pain control; total pain includes physical, psychological, social and spiritual pain. Death education also teaches about music therapy, bibliotherapy, and art therapy as valuable elements in the care for the total person. Important aspects of total care are informed consent, informed choice and good communication between patient, family and medical staff. A warm relationship of trust is essential in the endeavor to improve the quality of life of cancer patients.

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PubMed1992

[The need for death education].

"Death Education" is at the same time "Life Education." For many years I have endeavored to create an awareness of the need for death education in Japan. In this paper I would like to stress the necessity of death education for the following three groups. 1. For medical personnel. Three objectives of death education: 1) Learn to understand the fears and anxieties of the patients facing death and try to reduce their excessive fears and anxieties. 2) Familiarize yourself with the ethical issues related to terminal care and try to establish a warm relationship based on trust and continue communication with the dying patient till the end. 2. For patients. 1) Be aware that the time of your life is limited and try to discover the preciousness of the remaining time. Meditate on the uniqueness of your own death. 2) Finish your unfinished business, reevaluate your human relationships and benefit from a life review therapy. 3) Remove the taboo on death, arrange your own funeral and consider the possibility of another life after death. 3. For the patient's family and friends. 1) Continue warm communication with the dying patient till the end. 2) Prepare for your own bereavement and grief. 3) Try to make your own grief process an opportunity for personal growth. When a cure is no longer possible for a dying patient, the focus of our endeavors should be loving care of the person. Death education can help us to provide better terminal care during the final stage of life.

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