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The Art of Goodbye: Why People Are Talking About the End of Life [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Mortality has been a taboo subject for many years. Many cultural, demographic, educational, and policy changes have played a part in a shift toward an increased openness to talking about death as a natural part of life in the United States.
Suzanna Smith, Lynda Spence
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The Art of Goodbye: Exploring Health Concerns [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Issues and questions about care at the end of life are as unique and complex as the individual receiving care. The condition and culture of the patient and family, religion, spirituality, education, occupation, social class, friends, and personal ...
Lynda Spence
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Meta‐Virtuality: Strategies of Disembeddedness in Virtual Interiorities

open access: yesJournal of Interior Design, EarlyView., 2022
ABSTRACT To reclaim their seat in the rapidly growing market of virtual space, designers of the built environment can benefit from reevaluating theories that see the virtual as a mere extension/reflection of the physical. By claiming ontological autonomy from external worlds, the virtual is liberated from the hegemonic control of the physical.
Vahid Vahdat
wiley   +1 more source

The Art of Goodbye: Communication Considerations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
People are frequently at a loss for the best way to begin a discussion about end-of-life concerns with loved ones and health care providers, and are also unsure of the topics they should cover.
Suzanna D. Smith   +2 more
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The Art of Goodbye: Exploring Self-Reflection [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Many people assume that preparing for the end of life involves filling out forms at the doctor’s or lawyer’s office. Forms and checklists have their place and can be helpful, but they cannot address every issue because end-of-life concerns are ...
Chelsea Tafelski, Lynda Spence
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The Art of Goodbye: Planning Final Arrangements [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The consumer is faced with complex personal decisions while making final arrangements. Final arrangements might include a religious ritual, service, tribute, funeral, and/or burial. This 7-page fact sheet, part of a new series entitled The Art of Goodbye:
Lynda Spence
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Coloniality of Skill Codification: A Decolonial Feminist Analysis of “Ideal Workers” in the “Future of Work” Policy Discourses

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the last decade, policy actors have produced a surge of “future of work” reports that reimagine workers through the dual logics of digitalization and human capital. Drawing on 25 policy documents (WEF, World Bank, OECD, EU, and major consultancies) and combining Bacchi and Goodwin's WPR approach with decolonial feminist theory, this paper
Muneeb Ul Lateef Banday
wiley   +1 more source

Assisted Dying Makes Us Think Differently About Care

open access: yesHealth Expectations, Volume 29, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Assisted dying (AD) is increasingly available as a legal end‐of‐life option in wealthy nations. Literature on AD considers its operation and the experience of clinicians, people receiving AD, and their loved ones. It is inward‐looking.
Patrick Bolton   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Care without co‐presence: Crafting alternative modes of involvement in UK intensive care in times of COVID‐19

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 2, June 2026.
Abstract In this article we analyze how family involvement in intensive care in the United Kingdom (UK) was reconfigured through the reordering of proximity and distance during the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic, and the effects thereof. The introduction of visiting restrictions disrupted established modes of involvement in intensive care ...
Annelieke Driessen, Lisa Hinton
wiley   +1 more source

Collective grief, liminality, and redressive action in Black fans' embodied engagement with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Marvel's 2022 blockbuster film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was marked by the death of lead actor Chadwick Boseman in 2020, resulting in the cinematic death of his character T'Challa. For US Black audiences, the imagined nation of Wakanda served as more than entertainment, but a diasporic “home” at a time of deepening anti‐Blackness and ...
Marissa Smith Morgan
wiley   +1 more source

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