Open AccessCorona, met de ‘d’ van dood
Author(s) -
Martin Hoondert
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
religie and samenleving
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2773-1669
pISSN - 1872-3497
DOI - 10.54195/rs.11413
Subject(s) - denial , newspaper , trace (psycholinguistics) , focus (optics) , covid-19 , corona (planetary geology) , sociology , history , media studies , psychology , psychoanalysis , linguistics , philosophy , medicine , physics , disease , pathology , astrobiology , venus , infectious disease (medical specialty) , optics
In this article I explore the way people have dealt with death during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on a file with newspaper articles, tweets, Facebook posts, books, online stories and interviews I trace cultural patterns or so-called death mentalities, with a focus on the situation in the Netherlands. The theoretical framework is based on both Ariès’ and Jacobsen’s characteristics of different ways of dealing with death. These cultural patterns concern both ideas and practices. A tentative conclusion is that on the one hand there is denial of death, on the other hand the ritual changes indicate a protest against death by corona.