Afraid Of Death Research Articles

Perception of Adolescent Girls Living with HIV/AIDS Regarding Their Illness in the City of Lukala in Kongo Central in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Introduction: Despite the clear progress in the fight against HIV, the challenges to be overcome remain significant and vital. This is the negative opinion that the population has towards HIV-positive people. This perception of HIV leads, among patients, to a feeling of rejection, discrimination, marginalization and stigmatization. The aim of this study is to explore the perception of people living with HIV AIDS (PLHIV) in the city of Lukala DRC regarding their illness. Method: This is a cross-sectional study, by interview conducted with adolescent girls living with HIV/AIDS, during the year 2022 in the city of Lukala. Results: The results revealed that 83% of adolescent girls reached the age of maturity. Among them, 66% are married and multiparous, 83% have a low level of education and do self-employed work. All respondents have heard of AIDS and admit to being affected. Everyone is afraid of death. As for the cause of the disease, 66% of cases believe in bad luck. However, they continue to do their usual work. 50% of respondents are stigmatized or rejected by the family. They find their life dark. 66.7% of cases take no protective measures. Among married people, 80% say they lead a normal married life. Conclusion: Adolescent girls living with HIV/AIDS are a reality in the city of Lukala. However, preventive measures and therapeutic monitoring are not well applied but their lives continue normally. Ignorance and poor education favor the transmission of HIV.

The Impact of Socrates Death on Justice Administration- A Critical Study

People are always afraid of fear of death, than afraid of death. But that is not similar to this thinker. Thinker in sense OF the one who knows ,that what his death is going to cause to the future. this paper is focused on terminology of signified behaviour about justice administration governed or influenced by the inspection of philosophical relation. The theme of this paper is to testify that how a philosopher dies and give a relation about how things live by the thoughts, that’s why any justice administration requires a sacrificial need. This paper has been made through the doctrinal research method. This paper aims to distinguish by how a true nature of oneness and goal towards a society is needed in harmonious manner. There are certain views regarding that sociological and philosophical history is a very less to study, but the objective here is to determine how this is channelised and glorified for the need of historical pattern. Some people lives in past- depression exhaust them, some lives in future, depression also somehow can exhaust them. And some living in present have less chances to be exhausted by depression. because ,they are in present moment and they enjoy it or live it fully. this is the theme of purpose in the problematic study. From the critical analysis, the great thinker , if now seen in the eyes of humanity, and in the eyes of societies human perspective, the Socrate is a regardable person , not for saying in a fashionable mode, because he drank poison at that time, but because for the generations came, they made that poison into an elixir of immortality of the thoughts of the great philosopher.

A poem Mawtini as Unofficial National Anthem of Palestine by Ibrahim Tuqan. The Michael Riffaterre's Semiotic Lens

This research aims to reveal the meaning of Mawtini's poem, the unofficial national anthem of Palestine, by Ibrahim Tuqan. This study uses descriptive-analytical research using Michael Riffaterre's semiotic theory, which consists of indirect expressions, heuristic readings, hermeneutic readings, matrices, models, variants, and programs to express the meanings contained therein. The results of the research show that Mawtini's poetry contains jargon or phrases, namely: homeland, live a noble life or die a martyr's death, it is better to die than to be a slave to the enemy, sword, and ink as tools of war and narration, not afraid of death, and do not want to suffer. All of them are typical phrases or jargon of the struggle of the Middle East to expel Western invaders, especially Palestine. From there, it was concluded that Mawtini's poetry has a very deep meaning about the fighting spirit for the motherland, patriotism, and Palestinian nationalism, which later made it the unofficial national anthem of Palestine. The poem is intended to give hope and awaken the spirit of struggle to the Palestinian people in facing their enemies at that time, namely the Jews and the British in 1934 regarding the policy of unrestricted Jewish immigration and buying land to establish a "Jewish National Home".

Диалектический взгляд на нарушенную гармонию в военных письмах немецких студентов 1914–1918 годов

In this article the collection of letters written by voluntary students during the First World War is analyzed from a philosophical point of view. The collection was assembled by Philipp Witkop during the years of the First World War and after it. The author of the article analyzes two philosophical tendencies of materialism and idealism, which appear in the letters. These two philosophical tendencies are considered as phenomena of well-ordered life in peaceful times. The main material of this research is the original text of the collection of letters, as compiled by Philipp Witkop. Then, the texts of Clausewitz, Scheler, Heidegger and Ernst Jünger were added to further enrich the scope of the study. To assess the genuinity and political meaning of the compilation of letters, the author consulted with the contemporary researchers and their results. The main method of this study is the method of reading the text, conducting conceptual analysis and then attempting to develop a philosophical scheme in order to create a senseful context of what was read. Finally, the attempt is made to reunify the contradictions which were discovered as a result of the textual analysis. This attempt of reunification of the discovered contradictions is called the dialectical synthesis. Thus, the dialectical method is one of the important methods employed during the course of this study. The phenomenon of war could be successfully defined as a phenomenon of the destruction of the harmony of usual, peaceful order of life in a state. The author comes to the conclusion that the content of the letters can be mainly divided in two subgroups. The first subgroup is the subgroup of Idealism. Roughly speaking, these are the students who are enthusiastic about the participation in the war. They have an intellectual tendency towards collectivism. The second subgroup is the subgroup of materialism. This is the subgroup of those students who do not approve of the war. The mindset of these students can be called individualistic. Finally, some letters which attempt to create a dialectical synthesis of these two tendencies could be identified. This dialectical synthesis overcomes the fear of death. But it does not abandon the value of the individual conciousness and the individual personality. The discovery of the dialectical syntheses gives the prove that there can be a more complex attitude towards the historical phenomenon of war as a destructor of well-ordered harmony. It is possible not only to be afraid of death and miss the peaceful times, but also to radically welcome the new times of war. The author highlights the complexity of the human being. But at the same time, the author offers an argument for the possibility to create a senseful philosophical scheme to make sense of the complex properties of the human experience.

Attitude towards death in civil population living in the armed conflict zone in the context of existential fulfillment

Introduction. In the conditions of living in an armed conflict zone, the attitude of the civilian population to life and death may acquire its characteristics. Their study is of particular importance for the implementation of psychological assistance. Existential fulfillment is defined as living at the same time the correspondence of what is happening in life to one’s inner values and the circumstances of the outside world. In this regard, the authors consider the issues of psychological consequences for people living in armed conflict zones for people in connection with existential fulfillment.Goal. Determination of the attitude to the death of civilians living in the zone of armed conflict in the context of their existential fullness.Materials and methods. The study used a content analysis of the concept of “death” and the causes of fear of death, as well as the technique of Diagnostics of Existential Fulfillment" (V. B. Shumsky, E. M. Ukolova, E. N. Osin and Ya. D. Lupandina). The significance of the differences was checked using Fisher’s φ-criterion.Results. The majority of respondents are not so much afraid of the approach of death as the probability of injury and becoming disabled or that their children will be orphaned due to the death of their parents. The respondents living in the area of the SVO have medium (55.3%) and low (44.7%) levels of existential fulfillment. People with a pronounced fear of death or the consequences associated with it have a lower overall level of existential fulfillment than those who are not afraid of death, are philosophical about it, or do not think about it.Discussion and conclusion. The attitude to death and the level of existential fulfillment are closely related and depend on many parameters. The main reasons for the lack of existential fulfillment are traumatization, a sense of uselessness, unfulfillment in life, the insignificance of the process of life as a whole, and loss of meaning due to living for a long time in conditions of military operations, a low percentage of life prospects, lack of basic conditions for life. The general personality value–semantic orientation can be considered through the prism of its attitude to death.

Prevalence and Factors Associated With Compliance With COVID-19 Presidential Lockdown Measures: A Cross-Sectional Study.

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is one of the most severe global health uncertainties to date. Although significant global effort has been put into implementing COVID-19 pandemic control measures such as lockdowns, travel restrictions, and hygiene precautions, the transmission is expected to resurface once these efforts are discontinued. We aimed to determine the prevalence and factors associated with compliance with presidential 53-day lockdown measures in June-July 2021 in northern Uganda. In this cross-sectional study, 587 adult participants (≥18 years old) from northern Uganda were selected using a systematic sampling method. Data collection involved interviewer-administered questionnaires with an internal validity of Cronbach's α = .72. Socio-demographic characteristics of participants were described, and multivariable modified Poisson regressions were performed to assess prevalence ratios between dependent and selected independent variables, with respective P values at 95% confidence intervals. All analyses were conducted using Stata 17.0. Participants' compliance with the presidential lockdown directives was high at 88%(95% CI: 85%-90%). Compliance with the presidential directives was more likely among participants who agreed to the lockdown measures [adjusted Prevalence Ratio, aPR = 1.28 (95% CI: 1.10-1.49; P = .001)] compared to those who did not, and more likely among those who were afraid of death from COVID-19 [aPR = 1.08 (95% CI: 1.01-1.15; P = .023)] than those who did not. However, compliance was less likely among males [aPR = 0.91 (95% CI: 0.86-0.97; P = .002)] compared to females, those aged 35 to 44 years [aPR = 0.87 (95% CI: 0.79-0.97; P = .013)] compared to those less 25 years; and unmarried [aPR = 0.89 (95% CI: 0.82-0.97; P = .011)] compared to the married. Compliance with the COVID-19 presidential lockdown measures in northern Uganda was high. The factors associated with compliance were the fear of death and agreement with presidential lockdown measures. However, compliance was less likely among males, unmarried persons, and persons aged 35 to 44. The authors recommend more community engagements, participation, sensitization, mobilization, and simultaneous application of multiple public health approaches to improve compliance and control of COVID-19.

Development and Psychometric Evaluation of a Japanese Version of Newly Graduated Nurses' Difficulties with End-of-Life Care for Cancer Patients (NDEC Scale).

(1) Background: End-of-life care (EoL care) for cancer patients is stressful for nurses and can easily lead to burnout. Newly graduated nurses (NGNs) have a particularly difficult time, but no scale or inventory has been designed to evaluate their difficulties. This study developed and tested the reliability and validity of a scale to measure NGNs’ difficulties with EoL care for cancer patients (NDEC scale). (2) Methods: This study population consisted of 1000 NGNs and 1000 nurses with at least five years of clinical experience (GNs) that were working in hospitals in Japan. The initial scale consisted of six factors and 28 items. The reliability and validity of the scale were tested. (3) Results: A total of 171 NGNs and 194 GNs responded to the survey. The scale consisted of five factors and 25 items with the factors including “Feeling painful”, “Can’t deal with patients and their families”, “Don’t know the answer”, “Cannot afford”, and “Being afraid of death”. The criteria validity, known population validity, and internal consistency were confirmed. (4) Conclusions: The scale was validated to have a certain level of reliability and validity. The NDEC scale is expected to be used for self-care for NGNs and as an effectiveness indicator for educational programs.

Poppy, and: Hearing

Poppy, and: Hearing Tomaž Šalamun Translated by Brian Henry (bio) Poppy They're calling me. The arsonists of cypresses.I stroked bunnies in my palms.He rose at dawn. He rose at dawn. They're embracing me. The tiger that stomped on the tribe.It coiled the roads like flax around legs. Die, Tomaž! You no longer have a soul!I photographed you with your mouth openas you lay on the snow for the agreementwith the ravens. The hall that youthought was rock was reallythe rag of a red heartbeat. [End Page 120] Hearing The desire to be quick clones me.O how dark and heavy and quiet the bell is.Uniform intervals soothe.Why not say once quite simplythat I'm afraid of death? [End Page 121] Brian Henry brian henry is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently Permanent State. He has translated Tomaž Šalamun's Woods and Chalices, Aleš Debeljak's Smugglers, and five books by Aleš Šteger. Copyright © 2022 Yale University

Lessons for Left-Wing Populism from the 2010s Austerity Wave in Europe

Lessons for Left-Wing Populism from the 2010s Austerity Wave in Europe

Mongol invasion of Transoxiana 1219-1221 AD

The Mongol invasion of the Islamic world, especially parts of Transoxiana, was a serious threat to the Islamic world. This invasion was the first gateway for the Mongols to carry out subsequent invasions to other parts of the Islamic world, which resulted in the Islamic world getting worse and experiencing enormous destruction. This research uses the historical method. History as a science has a method for studying, analyzing, and reconstructing events in the past. This research is included in Library Research or literature assessment. The Mongol invasion of the Islamic world marked the end of the classical centuries and the beginning of the Middle Ages in Islamic history. The Mongol invasion could not be underestimated in the capacity of its military forces. One of the factors in the defeat of the Islamic world to the Mongol invasion, namely from the Mongol military power itself, and coupled with the internal weakness of Muslims, which began to experience divisions in terms of power. Other than that, the mentality of the Muslims themselves in war has begun to look weak and they have begun to suffer from the disease of fear of death. So that those who are not afraid and are not afraid of death can excel in mastering the battlefield, like the Mongols.Keywords: Invasion, Mongols, Transoxiana

Existential Issues in Old Age as Narrated by Older People—An Interview Study from Norway

Background: Research about the importance of existential issues and individuals’ responses to them in old age is growing. This study aimed to explore older Norwegians’ thoughts and experiences related to existential issues and whether or not they wanted to talk about existential concerns with others. The theoretical framework includes Yalom’s ultimate concerns and Tornstam’s theory of gerotranscendence. Methods: Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with eleven home-dwelling older persons, five men and six women aged 73–91 years, all residing in a larger Norwegian town. The data were analysed using thematic analysis. Results: Four main themes and two subthemes regarding the participants’ existential reflections emerged concerning loneliness, death, and meaning. Some participants increased their interest in existential issues in old age, and only a few participants desired deeper conversations about existential issues. Conclusions: The participants were mostly satisfied with life, mainly did not feel lonely and were not afraid of death. Existential meaning was experienced on a horizontal level rather than a transcendent level. Although few openly wanted existential conversations, most participants conveyed a positive interview experience, suggesting that if existential conversations were offered, they would be valuable to older people.

Embolism of the right atrioventricular foramen

On September 29, 1931, B-Noy Ch-ciy, 20 years old, with a small furuncle near the left eyebrow, somewhat painful, measuring 2X2 cm, appeared for an outpatient admission to the hospital. The patient was recommended to use ordinary warming compresses. After 3 days Ch-cue again, at the reception - "compresses do not help", the boil soreness increased, a dull pain appeared in the forehead on the left. The infiltrate is 3X3 cm in size, dense, crimson-red, cone-shaped with outlined edges. The process is dragging on. The patient has a pronounced sense of anxiety he is afraid of death and for the purpose of psychotherapy he was hospitalized.

Metaphoric Perceptions of Covid-19 Patients Related to the Disease.

This study aimed to explore metaphoric perceptions of patients with COVID-19 including treatment process, family relationships, and mental health via using metaphors. Purposive sampling was used to include participants. Totally 46 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 were included in the study. The metaphor-based data collection process was carried out with three open-ended questions. The metaphors compiled according to questions and grouped by 13 themes according to analysis. Patients explained to COVID-19 process by using 91 different metaphors. Most frequently used metaphors by patients; black hole/dark for the treatment process of COVID-19, steel for family relationships, sea metaphor for mental health. This study, it was determined that individuals are afraid of death, have a serious perception of uncertainty, and their family relationships and this process negatively affected their family relationships and mental states. Nurses have important responsibilities to increase the quality of patient care.

Postpartum Mother Psychosocial Conditions With Covid-19 Isolation

Background: Postpartum mothers with COVID-19 isolation can experience feelings of anxiety about being infected and afraid of death, loneliness, loss and sadness so that it can have an impact on the mother's psychosocial condition which can increase to stress and trauma, confusion and anger due to having to undergo the delivery process and self-isolate without family support, Not allowed to be visited or meet anyone. If this condition is allowed to continue without proper treatment, it can result in a psychotic condition
 Objectives: To identify maternal psychosocial conditions in postpartum mothers in the COVID 19 isolation room
 Methods: 100 postpartum mothers who were selected according to inclusion and exclusion criteria. The instrument used was a questionnaire on the characteristics of the respondents; the social support questionnaire which is a modification in the Indonesian language of the postpartum support system questionnaire and the family coping questionnaire; and a questionnaire to measure maternal psychosocial conditions using the Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Scale (EPDS).
 Results: A total of 43% of mothers experienced psychosocial problems, namely major depression. Factors associated with postpartum maternal psychosocial conditions with COVID19 isolation were work, economic status, parity status and social support (p <0.05). The factor that most influenced maternal psychosocial conditions in postpartum mothers with COVID 19 isolation was social support (OR 4.024; 95% CI; 1.601-10.112)
 Conclusion: Social support is a dominant factor affecting postpartum maternal psychosocial conditions.

The Philosophical Attitude of Eugene Hütz, Singer of Gogol Bordello

The Philosophical Attitude of Eugene Hütz, Singer of Gogol Bordello

Depression as a Mental Health Problem in the Patients Suffering from Cancer

About two patients from every ten patients who have been diagnosed with cancer, suffer from depression. This depression is something apart from usual sadness. Patients who have been diagnosed with cancer may encounter various stressful issues. Depression in this patients group can be occurred and needs special attention to be diagnosed and be treated appropriately. Issues like changes in daily life and life plans, changes in self-confidence and body image, being afraid of death and being worried about legal and money issues are some examples about such stressful issues for the cancer patients.

Analysis of Twitter Data Using Evolutionary Clustering during the COVID-19 Pandemic

People started posting textual tweets on Twitter as soon as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) emerged. Analyzing these tweets can assist institutions in better decision-making and prioritizing their tasks. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze 43 million tweets collected between March 22 and March 30, 2020 and describe the trend of public attention given to the topics related to the COVID-19 epidemic using evolutionary clustering analysis. The results indicated that unigram terms were trended more frequently than bigram and trigram terms. A large number of tweets about the COVID-19 were disseminated and received widespread public attention during the epidemic. The high-frequency words such as “death”, “test”, “spread”, and “lockdown” suggest that people fear of being infected, and those who got infection are afraid of death. The results also showed that people agreed to stay at home due to the fear of the spread, and they were calling for social distancing since they become aware of the COVID-19. It can be suggested that social media posts may affect human psychology and behavior. These results may help governments and health organizations to better understand the psychology of the public, and thereby, better communicate with them to prevent and manage the panic.

Effects of an advance care planning educational programme intervention on the end-of-life care attitudes of multidisciplinary practitioners at an acute hospital: A pre- and post-study

Background: Advance care planning is a crucial end-of-life care practice. However, an advance care planning educational programme for practitioners in an acute care setting has not yet been established. Consequently, we examined the effects of an advance care planning educational programme in an acute hospital in the hope of achieving increased awareness of end-of-life care. Design: A mixed-methods, pre- and post-design was employed to evaluate the change in attitudes of practitioners post-programme. The intervention programme was conducted thrice over 3 months in 90-min sessions. Setting/participants: This study included 85 participants in the baseline assessment working at B acute hospital in Osaka. Results: Participants’ scores on the ‘Positive attitude for end-of-life care’ subscale on the short version of the Frommelt Attitude Toward Care of Dying scale significantly increased after the 6-month intervention. A ‘Positive attitude for end-of-life-care’ implies that participants would not be afraid to practice end-of-life care. Further, participants’ scores on the ‘Death relief’ subscale of the Death Attitude Inventory also significantly increased. The term ‘Death relief’ means that death helps in ending suffering. It means participants are not afraid of death. Qualitative results implied that participants believed advance care planning implementation and communicating with patients and patients’ families were critical. Conclusions: Six months post-intervention, participants displayed sustained positive attitudes towards end-of-life care. These results suggest that the present programme was effective at improving practitioners’ attitudes towards patients’ end-of-life care.

Social death in seniors

Dying and death are parts of the life and are unique and personal to everyone. People are afraid of death, often due the fear of the unknown, suffering and loss of the quality of life. Death as such is affecting seniors most, which is, of course; relating to the life cycle. With ageing people are clearly aware of the irreversibility of this cycle and especially in cases, when decreasing of quality of their lives is linked with hospitalization or other forms of social care, which are requiring them to leave their home and social environment. Palliative care is applied in the terminal stages of the disease in present time and the process of dying is an integral part of nursing care. Seniors assess life via the quality of life. This quality of life is judged on its own values, which are in different order for everyone: health, social networking, free time activities or financial situation. Hospitalization of the senior often leads to social isolation, which in many cases ends with social death, and it usually comes much earlier than biological death. The aim of the paper is to draw the attention of the professional and general public to the phenomenon of social isolation and social death of seniors, which in our society, and not only in Slovakia, is beginning to emerge as a more and more current issue.

The Collapse of the Romantic Illusions in the Story of Bulat Okudzhava "Be Healthy, Schoolboy"

The story "Be healthy, scholar" - a unique phenomenon of the Russian Soviet literature of the twentieth century. The heroes of the war of prose and poetry of the time was not supposed to think about the proximity of death, of hunger on the front line, about the confusion in the orders, feelings of loneliness and hopelessness. Authors of books on military subjects portrayed brave people, ideological fighters against fascism. Writer Okudzhava departed from the prescribed literature templates and showed war as seen through the eyes of yesterday's schoolboy. 60 years of the last century were a period of "thaw" not only in the socio-political life of the country, but also in literature. For a little while, but strict censorship was lifted and the opportunity to write honestly about his own military experience. After all, the story is autobiographical Okudzhava: it is about him - yesterday the boy, who was dressed in a soldier's greatcoat and sent to war. Tale of how the scholar wants to live and afraid of death, ready to give their lives for their country, but would prefer, if possible, not to give up. Brutal military weekdays saved the young hero of the story psevdoromanticheskogo nonsense, revealing the truth - in war there is nothing great. "War can not be great" - openly declared Okudzhava. Only a convinced pacifist courage allowed the writer to express a point of view is radically different from the conventional. Research task article - evaluate the novel by Bulat Okudzhava "Be Healthy, scholar" as an attempt to debunk the literary romantic myths about the war in the Russian literature of the twentieth century. author of the article believes thatBulat Okudzhava's story reflects the realities of war and is indispensable in the study of front-line prose. The focus of the paper, the author focuses on the fact that people in war is left alone with his weaknesses, fears, pain.