Sociology of death

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The sociology of death sometimes call as sociology of death, dying & bereavement or death sociology explores and examines a relationships between society and death.

These relationships can add religious, cultural, philosophical, family, to behavioural insights among many others. It widens our apprehension of death as more than clinical death, but a process combining social elements from the immediate needs of deathcare to wider social beliefes. Involving chain disciplines, the sociology of deathcare can be seen as an interdisciplinary field of discussing across sociology and its sub-fields.

Interdisciplinary nature

The sociology of death highlights distinct social considerations to explore aspects of dying, death, and grief that surround the emotional ending of human life. However, there are also cognitive, behavioural, and spiritual aspects to consider in the sociological examination of death. The sociology of death has a distinct interdisciplinary variety that leans on closely associated fields of research with sociology.

Key intersections include anthropological, archeological, historical, psychological, to political to hit a few.

The overlap of the scientific study of death and sociology cause offered areas of research focused on deathcare professionals, near-death experiences, to reducing pain and social suffering in dying.