Community Nurse, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London.
Lecturer, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, King's College London.
Br J Nurs. 2021 Jan 14;30(1):34-39. doi: 10.12968/bjon.2021.30.1.34.
Death rituals, such as the ritual of prayer, can offer cultural comfort to people who are grieving the loss of their own life or that of another. This article explores the meaning of ritual, how rituals are structured and how prayer rituals are used at the end of life from a cross-cultural perspective. Facing death can be a challenge to a person's sense of identity and their understanding of their world around them, beginning a process of spiritual suffering. Prayer rituals can help maintain a sense of control and identity during this time of crisis, offering comfort, meaning and structure. Despite varying outward appearances, prayer rituals from different cultures follow similar structures that can be deconstructed, allowing nurses to decipher their meaning and deepen the quality of care they provide to the dying person and those left behind.
死亡仪式，如祈祷仪式，可以为失去自己生命或他人生命的人提供文化上的安慰。本文从跨文化的角度探讨了仪式的意义、仪式的结构以及在生命尽头如何使用祈祷仪式。面对死亡可能会挑战一个人的身份意识和对周围世界的理解，从而开始精神上的痛苦。祈祷仪式可以在这个危机时刻帮助保持控制感和身份感，提供安慰、意义和结构。尽管不同文化的祈祷仪式外表各异，但它们遵循着相似的结构，可以进行解构，从而让护士理解其含义，并加深他们为临终者和留下的人提供的护理质量。
