Behavioral Rehearsal

A Way of Talking about the Dying Process

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13629669
AutoresVictoria T Coffman (Montana State University Billings, autor de correspondencia), Stephen L Coffman (Montana State University Billings)
Año1996
Volumen32
Número1
Páginas63-76
Fecha de publicación1996-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2190/e1mh-wgwh-h475-ma2u
OpenAlexW2082102130
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas12

The authors suggest that theater activities can be used as a helpful approach to initiating more complex reflection about death among university students as well as hospice volunteers. Included in the article is an activity description and accompanying texts from a death-contemplation exercise which support this advocation. This performance skills activity produced serious student responses which were varied, articulate, and rich. Imagining and rehearsing death allows people to “act as if” and fantasize the circumstances surrounding one's death in a removed and relatively safe manner. These presentations can make the performance of life more meaningful, and the drama of death perhaps softer and more acceptable

Art · Contemplation · Drama · Epistemology · Process (computing · Reflection (computer programming · Rehearsing · Visual arts · Computer Science · Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · History · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being · Psychology · Social Psychology