O Luto Antecipatório dos Pais de uma Criança com Doença Crônica: Uma Análise Fenomenológica do Filme Em Busca da Luz

Abstract

It refers to a study which intends to understand the possibilities of experiences of anticipatory mourning from the point of view of the parents of a child affected by a chronic disease, based on scenes from the movie Go toward the light (1988). For that, a guiding question was formulated: What does the anticipatory grief mean for the parents of a child who experiences a chronic disease based on the movie 'In Search of the Light'? In focus on the qualitative approach, based on the existence phenomenological method, clippings of scenes were done to show the meanings attributed by parents in the experience of chronic illness of a child. And from the selection of scenes, three categories of analysis were raised: The loss of a child: how the parents experience this context; Existence, temporality and finitude: a being dealing with time after the diagnosis of a chronic disease; Finitude: the idea of death and a possible religious support. Such categories provided an understanding of the investigated phenomena and by these parents' experiences, anticipatory grief as a preparation for coping with the death of their child was unveiled with all the complexity involved in this experience.