@article{ref1,
title="A Captive, a Wreck, a Piece of Dirt: Aging Anxieties Embodied in Older People With a Death Wish",
journal="OMEGA - Journal of death and dying",
year="2019",
author="van Wijngaarden, Els and Leget, Carlo and Goossensen, Anne and Pool, Robert and The, Anne-Mei",
volume="80",
number="2",
pages="245-265",
abstract="The aims of this present study were to explore the use and meaning of metaphors and images about aging in older people with a death wish and to elucidate what these metaphors and images tell us about their self-understanding and imagined feared future. Twenty-five in-depth interviews with Dutch older people with a death wish (median 82 years) were analyzed by making use of a phenomenological-hermeneutical metaphor analysis approach. We found 10 central metaphorical concepts: (a) struggle, (b) victimhood, (c) void, (d) stagnation, (e) captivity, (f) breakdown, (g) redundancy, (h) subhumanization, (i) burden, and (j) childhood. It appears that the group under research does have profound negative impressions of old age and about themselves being or becoming old. The discourse used reveals a strong sense of distance, disengagement, and nonbelonging associated with their wish to die. This study empirically supports the theory of stereotype embodiment.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0030-2228",
doi="10.1177/0030222817732465",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0030222817732465"
}