Blogging at the end-of-life: Anticipatory grief, losses, and positive experiences in facing terminal illness.
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| Title: | Blogging at the end-of-life: Anticipatory grief, losses, and positive experiences in facing terminal illness. |
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| Authors: | Worrell, Shana, Hemer, Susan R. |
| Source: | Death Studies. 2025, Vol. 49 Issue 2, p208-217. 10p. |
| Subjects: | Attitudes toward death, Life, Psychological resilience, Women, Ethnology research, Content analysis, Catastrophic illness, Experience, Attitude (Psychology), Anticipatory grief, Terminally ill, Individual development, Interpersonal relations, Loss (Psychology), Blogs, Patients' attitudes |
| Geographic Terms: | Australia |
| Abstract: | This paper explores the experiences of people who blog about their own terminal illness and dying through the lens of anticipatory grief. Anticipatory grief is a concept which is frequently applied to those people who will be bereaved by death, rather than those who are themselves dying. Ethnographic content analysis of terminal illness blogs of two Australian women clearly narrate experiences of loss and grief which can be understood through the frame of anticipatory grief. Yet they also document positive experiences of growth and connection which can be conceptualized as resilience rather than a demonstration of denial of death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: | Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
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| Abstract: | This paper explores the experiences of people who blog about their own terminal illness and dying through the lens of anticipatory grief. Anticipatory grief is a concept which is frequently applied to those people who will be bereaved by death, rather than those who are themselves dying. Ethnographic content analysis of terminal illness blogs of two Australian women clearly narrate experiences of loss and grief which can be understood through the frame of anticipatory grief. Yet they also document positive experiences of growth and connection which can be conceptualized as resilience rather than a demonstration of denial of death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| ISSN: | 07481187 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/07481187.2024.2312385 |
