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Thanatology Review

Electronic Journal

Content

Volume 9

Number 1-2 · 2005

Original article


  REIMER GRONEMEYER
REIMER GRONEMEYER

  MICHAELA FINK
MICHAELA FINK

  MARCEL GLOBISCH
MARCEL GLOBISCH

a Justus-Liebig-University (Giessen) szociológiai munkacsoportja

marcel.r.globisch@sowi.uni-giessen.de

  FELIX SCHUMANN
FELIX SCHUMANN

Palliative Care in Europa


In: Helfen am Ende des Lebens – Hospizarbeit und Palliative Care in Europa. Schriftenreihe der Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Hospiz e. V. Band VII. Wuppertal, Hospiz Verlag, 2004. 20-51.
 IRÉN SZABÓNÉ BERTA
IRÉN SZABÓNÉ BERTA

szociálpolitikus, egészségügyi szakmanager

family99@t-online.hu

Hospice care in the reflect of quality guidance

Abstract · In 2003-2004 on the grounds of the Hungarian Hospice-Palliative Association’s request I participated as one of the two experts in the elaboration of the quality guidance aspect system of the hospice model program that is operating still today. As a continuation of this I have chosen the quality guidance oriented position survey of hospice organizations. The aim of the research was to assess the ration of organizations possessing operating inner or outer quality guidance system at the beginning of their hospice activity. I suppose that a great part of the organizations don’t know the rules of indicator-configuration and that they don’t or just partly have written regulators, protocols. I investigated how smooth the permit procedure went. Since there is no possibility to finance every types of hospice care it was also a question if the suppliers find it important to include each care form in the financing scope and not least I assessed the qualification of those working in the care and their participation at retrainings.

 ATTILA MATKÓCSIK
ATTILA MATKÓCSIK

történész

matik@freemail.hu

„Theatre of dying” – The dying gubernator of Transylvania

Abstract · In the hereby reviewed study I deal with dying and the theatre of dying. With dying in an age – the age of baroque – in which events of expiry, the way of dying is codificated for centuries. The church and of course the social environment around the individual have requirements towards dying and the one who is dying. They outlined the concept of ‘good death’ and established behavioral rules for those dying and for their environment. We could even say that they assigned some kind of ‘range of motion’ for the dying person, and if it was exceeded the person had to pay a great price: the loss of salvation. Similarly to funerals dying was an organized, public and thus communal event or performance which was directed by death and the lead was played – naturally – by the dying person.

The subject of the main part of the study is funeral, ‘the mournful theatre of public bitterness’. Funeral is the ceiling of baroque aristocratic ceremonies and here we see the same organization and publicity as in the case of dying. Furthermore, baroque aristocratic funeral is an accurate vehicle of togetherness of the family and also expresses the representation of the given families. Funeral is an accurate mirror of the era’s mentality and world concept in which the era’s way of thinking is highly reflected. This is demonstrate by the dying of György Bánffy (1660-1708), the gubernator of Transylvania.