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Existential and Humanistic Approaches to Death

nd dying . . . as a time when loved ones should surround, comfort, and encourage the patient."

In Alaska, among the Indians, the aged person is active until death, taking the major role in the events which precede his death (Trelease, 1975). One aged Indian woman, Old Sarah, for instance, called upon a preacher two weeks in advance of her death to ask him to come on a specific date with members of her family. The day which she had arranged was filled with religious festivity. That evening she died.

Most of the literature about death, at least among psychologists, has centered on the effects of the death, of separation which results from death of a family member or loved one. The necessity of completion of the grieving cycle is emphasized. Freud, too, has dealt largely with the effect of separation on the bereaved in his discussions of death. He found that incomplete grief often manifested itself in anger at the dead, the self, God, or some other agent who could be blamed for the death far into adulthood in the cases of those adults whose parents

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