Variety of Emotions Experienced by Survivors

Another problem which contributes to the stressfulness of making final arrangements is the fact that most survivors tend to be under serious time constraints at this moment of crisis. Bern-Klug (1996) has noted for example, that survivors are more often than not faced with making decisions regarding caskets, embalming, burial services, and other associated matters during a one-hour or two-hour meeting with a funeral director that usually takes place within 24 hours of the death of the loved one. Bern-Klug, Ekerdt, and Wilkinson (1999) reported that one local cemetery owner stated that there are as many as 70 specific tasks which must be addressed after a family death. Approximately one-half of these tasks are time pressure issues which m

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ave assumed responsibility for final arrangements for a friend or relative will be identified using the nth number of randomization. The researcher will obtain newspaper obituaries for a period of no less than six months and no more than two years prior to undertaking the research study. This listing of recently deceased individuals will be matched to local telephone directories. Survivors identified in the obituaries will be contacted via letter, and asked to participate in the study, which will be described as providing assistance to social workers and others who work with the bereaved (including funeral directors) that can help to make the task of completing final arrangements less inherently stressful. A sample of at least 50 adult individuals, both male and female, who have been identified as the primary survivor of a deceased person will be selected using the random method of selection. It is anticipated that a minimum of 200 letters describing the study and including a copy of the instrument will be sent out to achieve a 25 percent return rate. Bern-Klug, Ekerdt, and Wilkinson (1999), in their survey, which took roughly the same form as this proposed study, found a response rate slightly lower than the anticipate
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