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Death and fear, Kovács and Feifel

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When trying to understand the meaning of death and the fear that people feel about it, you can understand some of the psychological changes that the individual may come to feel an intensive care unit. This topic will address the theme of death by two authors: Kovács and Feifel.

In his work on death and human development, Kovács (1992) reports that the awareness of death itself is an important constituent conquest of man, for this is determined by the objective awareness of their mortality and a subjectivity that seeks immortality.
A brief summary of the relationship death and human development will be presented.

For the child, the first mother's absences are experienced as death. "This first impression is stamped and marks one of the strongest representations of all time which is death as the absence, loss, separation, and the consequent experience of helplessness and annihilation" (KOVÁCS, 1992, p.03). Actual deaths occur then starting to differentiate between living and dead, reversibility feature, which is revised. Often they bring the element fault to death for having this period of life a magical and omnipotent thinking, establishing a relationship between the desire of someone's death and the actual death of this. Although adults rationally know that this process does not occur, emotionally what often blaming the death of another (KOVÁCS, 1992).
The teenager leaves such "children's thoughts," but feels like a hero as a child, with the characteristic challenge your limits.

Introduction
Death is the concreteness of human limitation
Euthanasia and assisted suicide dysthanasia
The patient and the Intensive Care Unit
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[...] Even knowing the man will die, Kovács (1992, p.02) says: [ . ] However, we can not live your whole life in the overwhelming "presence" of death. There are several possibilities of concealment, both cultural, and psychological. Entres latter defense mechanisms can be highlighted: denial, repression, intellectualization, displacement. The defenses protect people from fear of death, however, may restrict them to live. And that would be a care to be taken, therefore, to the author, a subject to be so trapped, can not live, which may be equivalent to die. [...]

[...] There is no place for death, that is the defeat, failure. As we can see here depicts the current view of death: failure, defeat, incompetence (KOVÁCS p.05). The teenager is the desire for immortality of the human being. Follow adult life in which it is known that death not only happens to others and the possibility arises of death itself. This phase ends with the start of old age phase Kovács (1992) points out as the bearing more stigmas and negative attributes. [...]

[...] One of the things that drives the man, his creation and frenetic activity is the terror in the face of death. ( . ) If we were aware all the time of our death and our terror would be unable to act normally, we would be paralyzed. We act as if we were immortal, we believe that our actions are perennial, because this is our supreme desire, and we have no illusions that leave our works ensuring non-oblivion. Repression and denial as defense mechanisms, are the great gifts that protect us against that fear. [...]

[...] This topic will address the theme of death by two authors: Kovács and Feifel. In his work on death and human development, Kovács (1992) reports that the awareness of death itself is an important constituent conquest of man, for this is determined by the objective awareness of their mortality and a subjectivity that seeks immortality. A brief summary of the relationship death and human development will be presented. For the child, the first mother's absences are experienced as death. "This first impression is stamped and marks one of the strongest representations of all time which is death as the absence, loss, separation, and the consequent experience of helplessness and annihilation" (KOVÁCS p.03). [...]

[...] Death is the concreteness of human limitation. I believe that the emphasis on, and the continuous search for 'fountain of youth' in many segments of our society reflects, to some extent, anxieties concerning death. One of the reasons why we tend to reject the old is that they remind us of death. Professionals, especially doctors, who come in contact with chronic patients and extremely sick have noticed in themselves parallel trends of escape. Action against death phobia, for example, can be observed between the internal physicians. [...]

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