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KMID : 0377619960610090725
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1996 Volume.61 No. 9 p.725 ~ p.745
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A Study on a World Views of Death and Dying in Korean Folk Tales
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Abstract
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This study was conducted to explore the world view about the death and dying holistically and deeply. To accomplish this object, the text was investigated by it´s structure of the living world and after world and meaning of death. The text was ordinary folk tales which collected from 75 volume of Korean folk story. Text was investigated by structural and content analysis using 279 folk tales. In the first step, the text was classified by motif and underlying meaning as to separation of soul from the body, returning from after world, transition to another world, rebirth with another body, and going and back between two world. In second step, the content of element of individual tales and the structure of text was analyzed.
By the results of this study, the after world are same as living one in the spatial structure, social structure, and nature of beings. The after world is divided two world, which is paradise and hell. The paradise is a living fields of good ones and the hell is of evil ones.
The meaning of death is discontinuation and leaving the living world, separation of soul from body and living world, transition from one world to another one, shifting from physical world to metaphysical one, returning from after world, and changing the patterns of relationship from ordinary one to special one. Death is a means to meet one´s desire and reborn with another body. The basic ideas underlying this views is that death is not end of life but a chance for another life. This means that koreans more valuing to living than death.
The religious ideas underlying world views of death were mingled with such as Confusianism, Buddhism, Ideas of reincarnation, Shamanism, and Taoism. The problems of death has two dimension, which is biological and idealogical one. Professional nurses need to approach to these two dimensions. The biological death is inevitable, but the ideological one is able to overcome. Today, nurses, are in front to challenge to manage the problems of dying and death. I hope to this study serve as cornerstone for this challenge.
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