KHARON

Thanatology Review

Electronic Journal

Content

Volume 8

Number 3 · 2004

Original article


 ENIKŐ FÖLDESI
ENIKŐ FÖLDESI

klinikai szakpszichológus

foldesie@gyer2.sote.hu

 CSILLA ZSÁMBOR
CSILLA ZSÁMBOR

klinikai szakpszichológus

csilla@e-gear.hu

Psychic leading of the incurably ill child and his/her family

Abstract · In case of malignant pediatric diseases besides medical treatment there is a need for effective psycho-social support of the patient. Psychological follow-up of the patient is an essential part of the total medical care from the diagnosis until the terminal stage. In spite of increasing healing ratio and improving life expectancy tumor disease causes a severe convulsion for the child and the family: final healing expectancies are uncertain. Psychological support in the terminal stage and communication is performed in accordance with the child’s age-peculiarities and consequently by knowing the degree of his/her death-awareness. Talking about children death may appear especially unreal that entails excessive stress and spiritual burden on the hospital team.

DR. JÁNOS PILLING
DR. JÁNOS PILLING

PhD pszichiáter

pillingdr@gmail.com

Dignity of leave-taking

(Issues of treatment of the dead body)

Abstract · The crisis of death rite connected traditional rite-systems is strongly related to the process of hospitalization of death and to the lack of formation of a new rite-alternative that adapts to the altered circumstances. The main problem is the preservation of the dead body’s dignity and that there is no appropriate room established within the health care institutes for the manifestation of grief-reactions and leave taking that most fits the attitude of the families, which may have harmful effect on the normal progression of grief-work. By delineating Hungarian law concerning enshrine and mortal remains of the deceased the study pointed out their deficiencies and makes a proposal to alter or modify them according to the viewpoints of bioethics and thanatology. The need for change is enforced by revealing the reasons of some – recent – hospital incidents. As an example to follow it suggests establishment of grief-rooms, leave-taking rooms and introduces alternative solutions for institutes with different capabilities.

 SÁNDOR ANDRÁS KICSI
SÁNDOR ANDRÁS KICSI

nyelvész, esszéíró

Verlaine: Gaspard Hauser chante

Abstract · In connection with the establishment of so called death marks, the author commemorates Gaspard Hauser, the mysterious young man who appeared in the city of Nürnberg in 1828 and with his specific lot earned a memorial column in memory of his death. In his poem written in 1873, Paul Verlaine recalls his figure as a symbol of an odd stranger who doesn’t fit it his era. The poem was translated to Hungarian in more versions, these translations are introduced by the author and provides with historical data to the poem’s better understanding.