TY - T1 - Death and Dying Mediated by Medicine, Rituals, and Aesthetics : An Ethnographic Study on the Experiences of Palliative Patients in Finland SN - / UR - URN:ISBN:978-951-51-6928-0; http://hdl.handle.net/10138/323930 T3 - A1 - Butters, Maija A2 - PB - Helsingin yliopisto Y1 - 2021 LA - eng AB - This dissertation is a phenomenologically oriented ethnographic study on the experiences of palliative and hospice patients in Finland. The overarching research question concerns how contemporary urban Finns, who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness, experience and negotiate their end of life, death, and dying. The study explores what kinds of language, imageries, and possible rituals exist in relation to dying, the variety of means that dying patients use to face their mortality, and how... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - uskontotiede N1 - PP - ER -