For nursing professionals, death is the greatest villain of their work since, in general, they are educated to take care of life only. The purpose of this study is to investigate how nursing professionals experience mourning when facing the death of hospitalized children/adolescents. Therefore, authors used a qualitative descriptive-exploratory research. Data were collected through interviews w...

If much has been written of the forms of bodiliness reinforced by hospitals, less attention has been paid to the medicalization of the soul. The medical management of death institutionalizes divisions between body and soul, and matter and spirit, infusing end-of-life care with latent Christian theological presumptions. The invisibility of these presumptions is partly sustained by projecting rel...

Objective: The aim of this study was to carry out a systematic literature review in order analyze the function funeral rites for mourning process during COVID-19 pandemic, and identify possible psychic reverberations that may occur face impediment. Methods: Search research several electronic databases, selecting studies supported objective. Epidemiological studies, observational type, case expe...