{"title":"Avsked i coronatider","authors":"Cathrin Wasshede, Sofia Björk","doi":"10.37062/sf.58.22264","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"I vart samhalle laggs stor vikt vid att vi ska kunna saga farval till vara nara och kara nar de ligger for doden. Covid-19-pandemin har inte bara orsakat ett stort antal dodsfall utan ocksa medfort hinder for anhorigas mojligheter att narvara i doendeprocessen. I en studie som genomfordes 2020 intervjuades nio personer som hade forlorat en nara anhorig under en tid av restriktioner till foljd av covid-19. Nagra hade avlidit av covid-19, nagra av andra orsaker. Syftet med denna artikel ar att synliggora normer och ideal om slutgiltiga avsked och analysera hur de intervjuade hanterar sina kanslor, bade nar de avviker fran och lever upp till dessa normer. Fysisk och emotionell narvaro vid dodsbadden utgor ett starkt ideal om hur avsked bor ga till, ett ideal som antas stodja den doende och fa de anhoriga att kanna sig delaktiga. De intervjupersoner som levt upp till dessa ideal uttrycker tacksamhet och stolthet, medan de som inte haft mojlighet att gora det uttrycker oro, skuldkanslor, hjalploshet och smarta. Ett satt att hantera dessa kanslor ar att forsoka etablera tillit bade till covid-19-restriktionernas nodvandighet och till den personal som arbetade med de avlidna.Alternate abstract:In our society, great importance is attached to being able to say goodbye to loved ones when they are dying. The Covid-19 pandemic not only causes deaths but also creates barriers to being present in the dying process. In a study conducted in 2020, nine people whose next of kin died during Covid-19 restrictions were interviewed. The aim of the article is to make visible norms and ideas about final farewells and to identify how the interviewees handle their feelings when deviating from, or fulfilling, these norms. The most prominent ideals are for relatives to be physically and emotionally present at the deathbed, both to support the dying person and to better handle the grief. The interviewees who found ways to be present express pride and gratitude, while those unable to be present express anxiety, guilt, helplessness, and pain. To deal with their emotions they try to establish trust both in the necessity of the Covid-19 restrictions and in the staff that worked with their deceased relatives.","PeriodicalId":43127,"journal":{"name":"Sociologisk Forskning","volume":"58 1","pages":"153-176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2021-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Sociologisk Forskning","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.37062/sf.58.22264","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"SOCIOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
I vart samhalle laggs stor vikt vid att vi ska kunna saga farval till vara nara och kara nar de ligger for doden. Covid-19-pandemin har inte bara orsakat ett stort antal dodsfall utan ocksa medfort hinder for anhorigas mojligheter att narvara i doendeprocessen. I en studie som genomfordes 2020 intervjuades nio personer som hade forlorat en nara anhorig under en tid av restriktioner till foljd av covid-19. Nagra hade avlidit av covid-19, nagra av andra orsaker. Syftet med denna artikel ar att synliggora normer och ideal om slutgiltiga avsked och analysera hur de intervjuade hanterar sina kanslor, bade nar de avviker fran och lever upp till dessa normer. Fysisk och emotionell narvaro vid dodsbadden utgor ett starkt ideal om hur avsked bor ga till, ett ideal som antas stodja den doende och fa de anhoriga att kanna sig delaktiga. De intervjupersoner som levt upp till dessa ideal uttrycker tacksamhet och stolthet, medan de som inte haft mojlighet att gora det uttrycker oro, skuldkanslor, hjalploshet och smarta. Ett satt att hantera dessa kanslor ar att forsoka etablera tillit bade till covid-19-restriktionernas nodvandighet och till den personal som arbetade med de avlidna.Alternate abstract:In our society, great importance is attached to being able to say goodbye to loved ones when they are dying. The Covid-19 pandemic not only causes deaths but also creates barriers to being present in the dying process. In a study conducted in 2020, nine people whose next of kin died during Covid-19 restrictions were interviewed. The aim of the article is to make visible norms and ideas about final farewells and to identify how the interviewees handle their feelings when deviating from, or fulfilling, these norms. The most prominent ideals are for relatives to be physically and emotionally present at the deathbed, both to support the dying person and to better handle the grief. The interviewees who found ways to be present express pride and gratitude, while those unable to be present express anxiety, guilt, helplessness, and pain. To deal with their emotions they try to establish trust both in the necessity of the Covid-19 restrictions and in the staff that worked with their deceased relatives.