Lavigne-Pley C, Lévesque L
Centre Hospitalier Côtes-des-Neiges, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Death Stud. 1992 Sep-Oct;16(5):451-61. doi: 10.1080/07481189208252591.
An exploratory study of 25 institutionalized elderly people who witnessed the death of a co-resident is reported. Two topics are examined: thoughts and feelings of the survivors about their own death and the climate surrounding the death of a peer. Data obtained through a semistructured interview reveal that learning of a peer's death leads more than one third of the elderly residents to consider their own death. Witnessing a peer's death seems to have little positive or negative influence. On one hand, 84% of them state that they want to be informed of the impending death of a well-known peer; on the other hand, 80% reported that the staff does not say when a peer is dying. Half of the respondents perceive the staff as indifferent to the death of an elderly person.
本文报告了一项针对25名在机构养老且目睹同住者死亡的老年人的探索性研究。研究考察了两个主题：幸存者对自身死亡的想法和感受，以及同伴死亡时的氛围。通过半结构化访谈获得的数据显示，得知同伴死亡使超过三分之一的老年居民开始思考自己的死亡。目睹同伴死亡似乎没有什么积极或消极的影响。一方面，84%的人表示他们希望被告知知名同伴即将离世的消息；另一方面，80%的人报告称工作人员在同伴临终时什么都不说。一半的受访者认为工作人员对老年人的死亡漠不关心。
