Background: The aim of this rapid perspective review is to capture key changes to
memorialisation practices resulting from social distancing rules implemented due to the …

The aim of this study was to provide a better understanding of current memorialization
practices and their influence on grief due to bereavement and to explore ways of improving …

The negative consequences of bereavement and the disruption of social relationships put
the impact of bereavement squarely into a public health perspective. Adopting and …

Funeral services are known to serve multiple functions for bereaved persons. There is also a
common, intuitively reasonable assumption of positive associations between engaging in …

Bereavement, a specific kind of grief in response to a death, has been embedded in human
history, in cultural patterns, with ritual, ceremony, and community kindness being the …

ABSTRACT A population survey finds that bereaved people draw upon diverse sources of
support in their communities, from both formal services and informal networks of care. The …

Does restricting the ceremonial/ritual arrangements around a cremation to a minimum have
a negative association with grief over time? This question has increasingly concerned …

Although it has been widely discussed in the literature, no scale has yet been developed to
measure the consumption aspect of death. This study aims to develop a domain-specific …

Introduction Clark (2002) summarizes the challenges for palliative care as 'The challenge for
palliative physicians is no different to that facing their counterparts elsewhere in medicine …

The study investigates the effects of sublime-informed design and its ability to elicit awe
when applied to Philippine funeral home (funeraria) interiors as a positive psychological …