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January 2008
Universitätsklinik für Psychiatrie, Medizinische Universität Innsbruck.
Management of death and grief in obituary and in memoriam pages of Nigerian newspapers.
Psychol Rep
December 1993
Department of English and Communications, California State University, Bakersfield 93311.
This analysis of obituaries and in memoriam advertisements in Nigerian newspapers provides the identification of dimensions of content used to manage death and grief. Ten dimensions of content were abstracted: pictorial representation is a widespread practice, immediacy of announcement following death is an appropriate etiquette in the management of death, funeral arrangements are included as open invitation to a community of mourners, advertisements indicate direct contact and communication with the deceased, contents suggest the belief in personal immortality of the soul, religion is a pervasive and dominating force in advertisements, there are similarities in choice of words used in death advertisements, there is recognition of the temporal nature of life, mourning seems to be an ongoing process, and often the deceased is perceived as resting in peace. Never do obituaries and in memoriam statements include the flaws of the deceased.
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