A confrontation with death. The meaning of remembrance and commemoration at graves after losing a family member.
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2022-10-25
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At cemeteries one can see that traditional collective identities are losing their
impact. References to collective identities are being substituted with more
personalized, privatized modes of dealing with death. These enactments of
commemoration, performed by bereaved and the way the deceased are
remembered, are not fixed any more, especially for younger generations. Each
individual remembers and commemorates, in a way as it suits him or her.
Cemeteries and the people that visit them, may express changing beliefs about
mortality and immortality, about the meaning of life in this world and the
hereafter. Graves materialize specific memories. The research of; commemoration
as well as remembrance, can give us an improved insight in the changing spiritual
dimension of our dealing with human finitude.
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Faculteit der Filosofie, Theologie en Religiewetenschappen