Feelings Of Neglect Research Articles

Psychological and social consequences of deafblindness for siblings: a systematic literature review.

The onset of deafblindness profoundly impacts both the individual with this condition and the individual's family, including siblings. While current studies have primarily focused on the impact felt by parents or spouses, the distinct experiences of siblings have received comparatively less attention. This systematic review addresses the existing research gap regarding the psychological and social consequences experienced by siblings of individuals with deafblindness. A comprehensive search was conducted across multiple electronic databases, including PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, Dissertations & Theses (on ProQuest), ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS), Sociological Abstracts, Google Scholar, PubMed, and Cairn Info. Seven studies were identified as meeting the eligibility criteria for inclusion. The review revealed that siblings of individuals with deafblindness face psychological and social challenges, including emotions such as feelings of neglect, resentment, embarrassment, jealousy, and anxiety. Siblings also grapple with communication difficulties, contributing to feelings of exclusion and insecurity. In addition, these siblings take on significant responsibilities within the family and encounter obstacles in forming relationships outside the family. These findings underscore the need of interventions to improve the well-being of siblings of individuals with deafblindness by addressing their psycho-emotional needs and promoting positive social interactions. These findings align with studies conducted on siblings of children with other disabilities. However, additional research is crucial to investigate overlooked dimensions, particularly positive factors like coping mechanisms and resilience, that may influence the mental health and social experiences of these siblings.

The influence of trauma symptoms on interpersonal attributions in daily life.

There is well-documented evidence that trauma exposure can disrupt relationships. However, limited research has examined whether posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) moderate interpersonal processes in daily life. To this end, undergraduates (N = 98) completed a measure of PTSS at baseline. They then completed smartphone-based surveys after every interpersonal interaction that lasted longer than 3 min. for 10 days. These surveys assessed perceptions of self and other agency and communion as well as feelings of rejection, neglect, abandonment, worthlessness, emptiness, guilt, and shame. Results of multilevel modeling suggest that interpersonal perception and PTSS predicted 10%-26% of the variance in outcomes. Regarding agency, more agentic participants reported higher levels of negative attributions, γs=.47-.56. Participants also reported higher rejection and guilt when they experienced their interaction partner as more agentic than usual, γs=.07, and PTSS did not moderate these associations. For communal perceptions, participants who experienced themselves and others as warmer than other participants reported fewer negative outcomes, γs = -.44--.58. Individuals also reported more negative outcomes when they experienced themselves and others as warmer than they usually did, γs = -.10--.28, and PTSS moderated these associations. The negative associations between self- and other communion ratings and feelings of neglect, abandonment, and shame were stronger in individuals with higher PTSS scores. Together, these findings support continued efforts to understand the ways in which trauma exposure and PTSS disrupt interpersonal dynamics in daily life.

Recalling, reacting but not so much regretting: How young adults describe their sexual and romantic infidelity experiences

Infidelity is reported at high rates despite strong societal prohibitions against it, leading to questions about whether outcomes support the motives driving infidelity. Little is known about whether motives behind infidelity correspond to perceived outcomes, including regret, but such information might help to explain the paradox of the high rates. Participants were recruited from a large prospective study on monogamy. Analyses were conducted on surveys from the 94 individuals who engaged in infidelity over the year. Using structured and open-ended measures, the authors examined how infidelity evolved, patterns among motives and outcomes, and regret. Infidelity typically began at work or online, lasted about one year, and involved sex as well as feelings of infatuation or love. Most (63.4%) reported not regretting their infidelity. Motives (anger, neglect, dissatisfaction, sex) were compared with outcomes (fulfilled needs, sexual satisfaction, distress) to assess concordance. Being motivated by feelings of neglect or relationship dissatisfaction was associated with needs fulfilled by infidelity; sex as a motive was associated with sexual satisfaction as an outcome. However, concordance in motives and outcomes was unrelated to regret.

Creating spaces of well-being in academia to mitigate academic burnout: a collaborative auto-ethnography

PurposeIn contrast to prior studies examining burnout in academic employees, this paper explores how academic employee agency mitigates burnout risks in the context of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) and how this agency facilitates research productivity and influences well-being in the face of changes in learning and teaching practices.Design/methodology/approachThe authors use collaborative auto-ethnography (CAE) in the higher education (HE) sector to probe how an employee productivity group supported the group's members during the pandemic.FindingsThematic analysis revealed four emerging themes: burnout, beneficial habits for research productivity, blocking-out-time and belonging. The authors' findings suggest that by acknowledging and legitimising employee-initiated groups, feelings of neglect can be combatted. Purposeful employee groups have the potential to create a therapeutic, safe space and, in addition to the groups' productivity intent, diminish the negative effects of a crisis on organisational effectiveness.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to the literature by utilising a CAE approach to provide greater insight into how academics enact agency by creating digital research workspaces, attending to the spatial dimensions of well-being especially during turbulent times.

The Effect of Terrorism and Insurgency on the Security of African Nations: An Appraisal

Recently, Africa has been labeled a theatre of war due to incessant terrorist attacks that plagued its landscape. This situation, among others, explains why the continent's development has been slow or stagnated in all spheres, and Africa has been accorded little recognition in the international arena. Against this background, this paper examined the effects of terrorism on the security of African nations. The descriptive method was adopted, and a secondary source of data collection was used in sourcing relevant data. At the same time, content analysis was utilized as a framework for analyzing the data. The paper revealed that though terrorism and insurgency have been issues rooted in history, they have recently become serious challenges to the security of African nations, impacting negatively on African nations and their development. The paper posited that religious prejudice, deprivations, and the feeling of neglect are the underlying factors breeding terrorism and insurgency in Africa. It further averred that though a lot of combative efforts have been made to checkmate the trend of these phenomena in Africa, such have, however, achieved limited success. It is due to a combination of factors ranging from weak leadership to confronting the phenomena, corruption, and the porosity of national borders, which encouraged illegal migration of people that form the core of terrorists'/insurgents militia, and accentuated arms proliferation, among others. The paper is a modest effort in order to arrest this unpleasant situation and extreme religious radicalism, which should be timely nipped in the mud. The security architecture of African nations needs to be re-engineered and directed towards generating employment opportunities for their increasing youth population. Also, collaboration in intelligence gathering and information sharing should be encouraged among African nations to ensure early response to such challenges.

Older people’s long-term care experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana: a qualitative descriptive study

This study explores older people’s long-term care experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana. A qualitative descriptive approach employing semi-structured interviews was used to collect data from 15 older people from Southern Ghana. Analysis of interview data resulted in five interrelated themes: (1) sources and type of long-term care; (2) older people’s satisfaction with the long-term care received; (3) changes in their long-term care; (4) feelings of neglect regarding long-term care; and (5) older people’s resilience in long-term care. The sustainability of long-term care depends on the state’s ability to devise innovative long-term care policies and programmes to promote older people’s and their carers’ well-being.

Exploring Challenges of Piña Growers in the Province of Aklan

This study described the challenges experienced by pina growers in the province of Aklan in areas where pina growing, and production activities were declining covering the from 2003 to present. Specifically, this study explored the problems encountered by the pina growers in pina fiber production, their views on the problems encountered and their coping strategies. The study used qualitative research design where phenomenology was used as research method. Data analysis was done using the process developed by Colaizzi’s (1978) as cited by Shosha (2012) to provide assistance in extracting, organizing, and analyzing to explore and understand the challenges encountered by the pina growers. Findings revealed that the pina growers encountered problems such as difficulty in the maintenance and cultivation, longer gestation period, no sustained market and interference of middleman, lack of planting material, natural calamities, infestation, shifting to another variety and lack of support. These resulted to decreased motivation, financial instability, and feeling of neglect but still have the contentment. In order to cope with these challenges, the pina growers turned to problem and emotion-focused strategies where problems are addressed pragmatically. The researcher recommends information dissemination and technology transfer of packaged technologies such as sustainable/sufficient supply of planting material, proper way of cultivation, maintenance, intercropping the SR Pineapple with other crops, improve fruit size and quality, efficient post-harvest handling of pina leaves, develop and improve the present fiber extraction method. It is further recommended that information dissemination should be made among concerned agencies such as the Local Government Units (LGUs), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), and Department of Agriculture (DA) for appropriate interventions in terms of market price of pina leaves, sustained market demands for pina leaves, and empowered pina growers, leaves processors, knotters and weavers through the formation of a cooperative. Future policies to address the dwindling pina growing activities and pina fiber production may use the proposed theoretical framework for relevant action.

Depression and its associated factors among elderly people of old age homes and community of Kathmandu district, Nepal: a comparative study

Background: Depression is a common public health problem among elders worldwide and is associated with high morbidity and disability. This study aims to assess depression and its associated factors among elderly in old-age homes and a community of Kathmandu district.Method: A comparative cross-sectional study recruited 122 elderly from old-age homes and a community of Kathmandu district. Depression was measured using the Geriatric Depression Scale-short scale (GDS-15). Socio-demographic and medical history was collected using semi-structured questionnaire. We utilized bivariate logistic regression to assess the association of depression with each variable. Results: The prevalence of depression among elderly in old-age homes was 74.6% and in community was 41.8%. The study found that elderly residing at old age homes were four (OR=4.087; 95% CI=2.373-7.038) times more likely to have depression than those residing in the community. Age was found to be associated with depression among the respondent of both settings. In old-age homes, not receiving old-age allowance, bad perception of life, bad social relation, having a chronic disease, lack of care from family, stress and weeping as stress coping strategy were associated with depression. In the community, stress, non-involvement in family decision making, feeling of neglect, dysfunctional capability, bad social relation, lesser monthly income had positive relation with depression.Conclusion: Depression is highly prevalent among Nepalese elderly, with higher burden in those living in old-age homes. This emphasizes the need for screening of depression among elderly, to initiate early intervention measures.

The UK private housebuilding sector: social media perspectives

Purpose The UK private housebuilding sector is the key supplier of new-build homes for customers, constituting a fifth of the entire UK construction industry. Yet, despite the high average cost of houses, and official reports advocating improvement, the sector remains blighted by criticism and a negative image of its quality. However, social media now offers customers new sources of advice and information. In this context, the purpose of this paper is to analyse social media forum posts from new-build homebuyers to reveal perceptions of the industry and illustrate the value of such data for others. Design/methodology/approach This paper presents and thematically analyses 147 comment posts from nine online Facebook forums under the themes of safety; standards; quality; workmanship; customer service; finance and money; advice; National House Building Council; ombudsman; and page closures. Findings Customers express frustration, anger, feelings of neglect and of an abdication of responsibility by the sector. Fundamentally, change is suggested at a systemic level, and it is urged this occurs through powerful and independent bodies. Originality/value To date, social media data has not been analysed in the context of the housebuilding sector. Yet, such data is key not only for its open and wide-reaching nature but also because it can be incorporated into government reports. It is hoped such data will be used by the new home ombudsman the UK Government hopes to establish in 2020 and help rectify many of the performance issues experienced and protect homebuyers.

Deciphering Regional Disparity in Western Odisha: Looking Through the Prism of History

Western Odisha has experienced hardships as the most backward region in the state of Odisha in all domains. The discrimination in terms of infrastructure, poverty reduction, literacy, education and health in this region by the successive governments of Odisha, establishment of institutions like Western Odisha Development Council (WODC) with its headquarters at Bhubaneswar with a small fraction of budget, less representation of people in decision-making bodies create a feeling of neglect and deprivation. The major thrust of this paper is to explore the multifarious factors causing the regional disparity in Western Odisha. It is only through mass awareness, empathetic, soft corner attitude of both central and state governments, involvement of NGOs, civil society organisations and change in power structure of the Koshal region regional balance in the state can be ensured.

Understanding the Lived Experiences of Transitioning Adults with Gender Dysphoria in the United Kingdom: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

This study aimed to gain an in-depth understanding of the lived experiences of adults with gender dysphoria seeking treatment in the UK. Two transgender males and six transgender females participated. Data were collected via semi-structured interviews and analyzed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Analysis of the transcripts revealed three superordinate themes: “Accessing Healthcare Services,” “Searching for Acceptance,” and “Impact of Gender Dysphoria on Psychological Wellbeing” that represented the experiences for this population. It is concluded that there is a substantial need for counseling support during and after the treatment-seeking process within the UK. Public significance: This study provides an insider’s account of the experience of seeking help and support from peer and familial groups, as well as healthcare providers, as an individual aiming to transition gender in the United Kingdom. This study highlights the feeling of neglect that individuals with Gender Dysphoria can experience when seeking care from the National Health Service (NHS), and the impact that this has on well-being.

Anger and Bitter Hearts: The Spread of Suicide in Northern Ugandan Families

ABSTRACT In many societies, the phenomenon of suicide provides a particularly powerful example of how something sinister might ‘run in the family’. In the Acholi sub-region of northern Uganda, concerns about its capacity to spread increased during and after the Lord’s Resistance Army war. Based on interviews with bereaved families in 2016 and historical material on suicide, we offer an analysis of suicide as an approach to the contagious connections of kin. Successful and attempted suicides were often preceded by affective contamination of family relations through feelings of neglect, humiliation, abuse, indignation and resentment that made hearts bitter. Anger finally moved people to take their lives, often leaving behind questions of liability. Suicide requires that we consider these questions together with notions of personhood and mutuality of being. The concept of affective contamination contributes to the understanding of both suicide and contagious kinship connections.

First Time Experience of Being a Father in Adapting to Postpartum Period in Indonesia Setting

The post partum period is an extraordinary transition for a father in his first experience. Research results have shown that fathers have a very large role in the health and welfare of mothers and children. However, often the father has difficulty in adapting and carrying out his role due to lack of knowledge, skills and support. The lack of research exploring the experience, needs and behavior of fathers in adapting to postpartum causes a lack of references. The objective of is to explore fathers’ experience in adapting to postpartum period in Indonesia. The research design is qualitative research by descriptive phenomenology study.Technique sampling is by purposive sampling. The number of participants is 10 fathers who get their first child . Data were collected through in-depth interviews. Data were analysed by qualitative analysis with Colaizzi method. The result is the first psychological experience of being a father in adapting to postpartum includes positive and negative feelings. Positive feelings include happiness and gratitude. Negative feelings include confusion, difficulty adapting to new roles, feeling worried, changing patterns of relationships with wives, feelings of neglect, expected and required to be able to understand wives and provide support, lack of information from health workers relating to postpartum care.
 Conclusion: Father's first experience of adapting to postpartum is more perceived negative feelings. Recommendation : Health professionals are required to be able to understand the psychological condition of the father and then be able to provide the necessary support so that the father can adapt well and have a positive influence on the mother and baby.

The Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007- Helping the conditions of the elderly in India

Aging in India is exponentially increasing due to the impressive gains that society has made in terms of increased life expectancy. About 8.6% of the total population in India is in this age group, with 8.2% males and 9% females. With increasing age, an aged person becomes dependent and faces a lot of problems. There is a feeling of neglect and sadness and that the people have an indifferent attitude toward them. Furthermore, the prevalence of mistreatment with the elderly is on the rise. Such a situation has resulted because of degenerating traditional values and weakened family system. The Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act came into existence in the year 2007 to provide maintenance support to elderly parents and senior citizens. Parents according to the Act mean biological, adoptive, and stepparents, and the age of parents is irrelevant to claim maintenance. Adult children and adult grandchildren are legally obligated to pay maintenance; the amount is determined by the needs of the claimant so that the elderly person can lead a normal life. If children intentionally abandon the senior citizen completely, he/she is liable to pay a fine of Rs. 5000 or face imprisonment for 3 months or both. The legislative approach has its limitation, but it has the potential to arouse the social and ethical debates in the country to alleviate the dependent status of older persons.

The Post Retirement Adjustment Challenges Confronting Local Government Employees in Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State

The study examined the post retirement adjustment challenges confronting local government retirees in Ethiope East Local government area of Delta State. The study adopted survey in the form of a descriptive study in which data will be collected once across a population through sampling. The research design of this study is a survey based on a structured questionnaire. The study revealed among other things that delay in the payment of retirement benefits represent the highest percentage of post-retirement challenges often faced by local government retirees in Ethiope West local government area of Delta State. Another major post retirement challenges were the absence of a social policies for retirees. It was further discovered that aging/stereotype feeling of neglect, Physical trauma and anxiety arising from absence of income generating activities is a major challenge confronting retirees in Ethiope West local government area of Delta State. Based on the findings of the study, the following recommendations are hereby outline: The Local government Service Commission should establish a mechanism that would be in cooperate with pre-retirement counseling services as well as general retirement issues to equip its employees with the basic knowledge when concerning retirement. Second, retirement planning should begin early in the employees life so that they could save enough before retirement. In this regards, employees should open retirement savings accounts for pension fund administrators of their choice to enable them to save towards their retirement. Third, government should also initiate a social policy for the aged in the society to help cushion the inadequacies often suffered by retirees in the retirement benefit management in Nigeria. More so, the new pension system should also ensure transparent and efficient management of pension funds. Furthermore, employees should be encouraged to develop a savings culture. Above all, government should strengthen the regulatory and supervisory framework and empower it to successfully and effectively check earring pension fund administrators in the country. Finally, employees and retirees should be encouraged to invest in assets and financial instruments so that at retirement they can earn additional income from these assets and financial instruments to supplement their pension income at retirement.

1989 in European Vernacular Memory

This article is part of the special section titled The Genealogies of Memory, guest edited by Ferenc Laczó and Joanna Wawrzyniak In our contribution, we examine the vernacular memory of the end of Communism and the year 1989 in Europe. Analyzing sixteen focus groups conducted in Germany, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom, we concentrate on the question whether the events related to 1989 might have the disposition to become a transnational European lieu de mémoire. We show that 1989 is not a salient historical event for British and Spanish participants, while Polish and German respondents do connect it with patterns of national identity building. Differences between vernacular and official memories could be revealed as respondents hardly mentioned the democratic achievements made in the course of the transitions. A transnational dimension was only found in Poland, where respondents articulate a feeling of neglect toward their own national history. The Solidarity movement is being interpreted as a motor of liberation and Europeanization of Poland and as a pioneer of democratization on a European scale. German respondents remain in their national frame, focusing on flashbulb memories of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the issue of social integration of East and West Germany after 1990, which they evaluate as imperfect. The strong national bias of Polish and German focus groups raises doubts as to whether 1989 can become a transnational basis for a shared European memory.

Left behind in a democratic society: a case of some farm school primary schoolteachers of natural science in South Africa

This case study explores the plight of some farm schoolteachers in a school district in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa and their feelings of neglect in the new democratic society. Through interviews and a teaching observation analysis, this article focuses on five teachers and discusses resource and infrastructure challenges, lack of vision and educational value, lack of parental involvement and role models. It is concluded that farm schools are still neglected, and it is thus imperative that the new educational policies should be implemented fairly across the various types of schools existing in South Africa.

Birth at the health center or at home: an analysis of birthing care among the Kukamas Kukamirias women of Peru

Objective: to describe and analyze the culture and traditions related to pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum care of the Kukama kukamiria women, living in the Peruvian Amazon, and their experiences and perceptions of care at home compared to that received at the health center. Methods: a qualitative study based on ethnography that seeks to analyze traditional knowledge and practices of self-care, taking into account descriptions of home births attended by traditional midwives, compared to that of birth care at the health institution. Results: home delivery prioritizes women’s’ comfort, through the use of teas, baths and specific rituals in caring for the placenta; dietary regulations and attention to environmental aspects such as temperature and lighting are built into care. At the health facilities, routine interventions include acceleration of labor with the use of drugs, vaginal cutting (episiotomy), immobilization in lithotomy position, and the disposal of the placenta as garbage; which is perceived as inadequate and aggressive. Conclusion: a preference for traditional care is justified based on feelings of neglect and vulnerability at institutionalized health centers, resulting from the lack of consideration by the health services for the cultural and well-being specificities of the Kukama Kukamiria women.

An Independent Caprivi: A Madness of the Few, a Partial Collective Yearning or a Realistic Possibility? Citizen Perspectives on Caprivian Secession

The case of Caprivi in Namibia represents an example of independence movements operating within the (multi-)national states in the contemporary Southern Africa. An armed secessionist uprising in August 1999, although quickly stifled by the Namibian government, revealed the singular historical roots of this movement, as well as a presently widespread popular feeling of discontent and aspiration for separate Caprivian citizenship. This article explores some key visions of the local population's experience of their membership of the Namibian state and seeks to explore the possibility – real or not – of an independent Caprivi equipped with a shared ethnic identity. The aim is to address (at least partially) the gap found in research scholarship about Caprivian secession in terms of the views and preferences of the Caprivian population itself. On the basis of ethnographic field research, it has been possible to explore popular perceptions of the events of 1999, the idea of independence, and the general feeling of neglect by the Namibian government.

Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism (review)

Reviewed by: Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism Steven Heine (bio) Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism. By Mark Michael Rowe. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2011. xv, 258 pages. $85.00, cloth; $29.00, paper; $29.00, E-book. Bonds of the Dead at once makes a valuable contribution and signals an important new trend in the field of literature on the socioreligious phenomenon that has generally been referred to as “funerary Buddhism” (sōshiki Bukkyō), at least since the time of the seminal 1963 study, Sōshiki Bukkyō, by Tamamuro Taijō. Unlike many analysts of the issue, Mark Rowe is able to demonstrate through a series of fieldwork studies conducted with priests and parishioners in various parts of Japan that, far from representing a kind of desperate and degenerate form of religious practice that can easily be dismissed by skeptics, the focus on commemorating the dead in Japanese Buddhism is a vibrant and continually renewing dimension of spirituality. [End Page 134] Newer, innovative approaches are richly deserving of attention for representing the ways that funeral rites have been changing dramatically in recent years in the face of the challenges of a rapidly changing society. Despite manifold alterations, Japanese society remains one in which a prevalent concern is the longstanding desire to avoid a sense of undergoing an “absence of bonds” (muen) along with the feeling of neglect and abandonment at the time of death (muenshi), or of there being uncared for or castaway graves (muenbo) for oneself or one’s family members. Societal changes include urbanization and distance from ancestral graveyards, decreasing population and fewer family members to attend to the rites, economic hard times and scarcer resources to support the accoutrements that accompany memorials, and more high-paced lifestyles that are not conducive to lingering over the deceased. Rowe cites Ogawa Eiji to point out, “growing emphasis on the individual, nuclearization of families, declining birth rates, and increases in population shifts, singles, divorce, and depopulation mean that the form of the grave itself must change” (p. 69). Those kinds of adjustments suggest that people are fighting for their lives in terms of maintaining and creating connections through death, despite feeling enhanced independence that to some extent is attained by choice but is more often than not a condition thrust upon individuals. Rowe describes the aim of Tamamuro’s work in 1963 to trace “the historical circumstances by which Japanese Buddhism came to be associated with the physical and spiritual care of the dead” (p. 5) and thereby to expose the roots of Japan’s “mortuary problem” (sōsai mondai). This problem linked Buddhist institutions to what seemed like an inferior and decadent form of religiosity that focused on rites for the deceased and memorials for ancestors primarily for commercial reasons stripped of an authentic sense of transcendence. Over the past half a century, the “mortuary problem” became “a catchall term for a broad range of doctrinal, historical, social, institutional, and economic issues confronting the traditional sects of Japanese Buddhism” (pp. 6–7). Itami Jūzō’s film O-Sōshiki (The funeral, 1984), for example, was an international sensation in the 1980s because of how, during the heights of the economic bubble, it lampooned the seemingly boundless greed of a Buddhist priest wearing gold-laced robes and being chauffeured in a luxury limousine to accept a generous donation from a bereaved family. The members of the family were disconnected from the meaning of the traditions that social custom compelled them to try to follow, yet they rather shamelessly went through the mere motions of ceremony as guided by an instructional video while adultery and other scandals were taking place only partially behind the scenes. Rowe seeks to reverse what has become a commonplace notion that the performance of funerals has been the cause of a weakness in the Japanese Buddhist institution. He shows instead that these rites can and often do [End Page 135] function as creative and continually redefined responses to the existential problem of death and dying that all people face. Because of their special historical and cultural status, Buddhist temples...