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- MakaleYalnız künye2026Aged people with chronic diseases dying: An investigation of metaphorical perceptions and cognitive structure; [Sterbende ältere Menschen mit chronischen Erkrankungen: Eine Untersuchung metaphorischer Wahrnehmungen und kognitiver Strukturen]
Demir Çam, Sevgi; Uzun, Sevda; Aydin, Esra; Altindaş, Sueda
Purpose: This study was designed to examine the metaphorical perceptions and cognitive structures of aged individuals with chronic diseases towards death. Methods: The research was conducted as a qualitative study based on metaphor analysis. Data were collected using a semi-structured interview form that investigated the metaphorical perceptions of 15 individuals with chronic diseases towards death and a form that was asked to be explained with drawing technique. In the semi-structured interview form “Death is like … because …”, metaphor expression was included, and in the other part “Describe your thoughts about death with drawings”, the form containing the expression was used. The data were analyzed using the content analysis technique. The study was conducted and reported according to the COREQ checklist. Results: It was determined that the old individuals with chronic diseases who participated in the study produced 4 metaphors with the writing technique and 4 metaphors with the drawing technique. As metaphors, the themes of end of life and a new beginning, extinction and feeling of emptiness, journey of life, salvation and reunion were determined. Conclusion: As a result of the study, it was determined that old individuals with chronic diseases had anxiety about death. In addition, it was determined that old individuals had negative and positive cognitive schemas about death. In this context, old individuals with chronic diseases may need psychosocial support systems.
- MakaleAçık Erişim2025Images of the Death Phenomenon: A Metaphorical Study on Earthquake Victims; [Ölüm Olgusuna Yönelik İmgeler: Depremzedeler Üzerine Metaforik Bir Araştırma]
Maraşlioğlu, Şerife Ericek; Kartopu, Saffet
In February 2023, two powerful earthquakes measuring 7.7 and 7.6 in magnitude struck 11 provinces, with their epicenter in Kahramanmaraş. These earthquakes have been described as the most significant disaster of the century, resulting in extensive structural damage and numerous casualties. Those who survived the earthquake faced death and experienced traumatic events. Concepts such as death are sensitive and complex, making them challenging to express without linguistic support. In this context, individuals often prefer to communicate their thoughts and feelings-essentially their abstract self-experience-through metaphorical expressions. This study aims to identify earthquake victims' metaphorical perceptions of death through qualitative and quantitative phenomenological and correlation analyses. The sample of the study consists of earthquake victims residing in Kahramanmaraş who were directly affected by the earthquakes of February 6, 2023, aged 18 and over, and who volunteered to participate in the interview, determined by purposive sampling. For the implementation of the study, ethical approval was obtained from the Gümüşhane University Rectorate, reference number 2024/3. A total of 291 participants voluntarily took part in the study. Data were collected using a semi-structured metaphorical perception form that included the prompt “Death is like/similar to…” along with sociodemographic variables. The data obtained were analysed using coding and categorisation methods to examine patterns and relationships of meaning in line with the research objectives. The findings revealed that participants generated 88 distinct valid metaphors related to the concept of death. Notably, participants focused on the metaphors of “end,” “restart,” and “gift,” while the category with the fewest metaphors was "reckoning time".
- MakaleAçık Erişim2022Technologized Life as an Imagining of Eternality from Antenatal to Post-Mortem
Demir, Sertac Timur
In this article, everyday technology, which tends to expand without limits, is discussed in the context of contemporary practices that start from antenatal to death and that correspond to the desire for immortality of modern man. For this purpose, it is examined how technology intervenes in life and death through the episodes of Arkangel, Right Be Back, and San Junipero in Black Mirror, the popular science fiction series. In this study, the current social and human dilemmas that appear in the narratives are discussed, without ignoring the technical analysis of the series. In this respect, gene based medical studies that reformat the body, smart and synthetic technologies that add a new dimension to digital control and surveillance, contemporary medical and technoscientific assumptions about death and immortality are debated. The theoretical framework of this article consists of theoreticians such as Jean Baudrillard, David Le Breton and Byung Chul Han who consider that the change in social structure and relations is mainly driven by technology and critically approach this unavoidable trend. According to the main argument and inference of this research, technologies that can descend to every part of the body are no longer just the comfort and convenience extensions of daily lite, and they affect almost all ontological processes between existence and extinction by being articulated with human destiny. However, this global trend is also the loss of the natural and the real for the modern characters who are deprived of the human conditions such as pain and death that make life precious.
- MakaleAçık Erişim2021A Sociological Criticism of the Global Health Discourse: The Pandemic as a Metaphor of Contemporary Culture
Demir, Sertac Timur
This article argues that a clear correlation exists between disease and the prevailing social functioning. In this respect, every disease can be seen as a metaphor for the age and society in which it emerges. In other words, every period carries a form of disease that bears traces of the dominant lifestyle. This study approaches the epidemic as a kind of sociological projection in the context of studying modern culture and continues the discussion along the lines critically opened by Susan Sontag (2005). lust as Sontag examined disease as a metaphor, this article debates the discourses on masks, social distancing, and hygiene within the scope of COVID-19 along a specific sociological axis around the concepts of speed, control, information, hyper-medicalization, and death as the dominant indicators of contemporary culture. For this purpose, the study seeks answers to the following questions through the leading social theorists of the field such as Bauman, Baudrillard, Turner, Furedi and Chul-Han: How does the global epidemic and the current health discourse embodied in it appear within the sociological context? What thoughts and tendencies emerge when examining the pandemic portrait as a social metaphor? For example, what kind of relationship exists between hygiene and cultural fears; among distance, social isolation, and avoidance; and between masks and the superficial idea of death concealed behind quantification? Undoubtedly, the pandemic is a critical breaking point in the history of modern medicine and has forced not only global health practices but also many value judgments to both paradoxically be accepted and questioned.
- MakaleAçık Erişim2017SCREENING FOR ABDOMINAL AORTIC ANEURYSM IN GERIATRIC POPULATION
Karakus, Ali; Tasin, Veyis; Kartal, Ismail; Kuvandik, Guven
Aim: An abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is uncommon in people. Male gender and smoking are the most important risk factors. AAA is a condition that may be fatal when diagnosis is delayed This study aimed to emphasize the necessity for screening due to four fatal cases with abdominal aortic aneurysm in a genatric population. Material and Method The study included 320 patients from a nursing home and an emergency department The diameters of abdominal aortas were measured and assessed far risk factors. Results: Of the patients, 232 (72.5% were male and the mean age was 75.65 +/- 7.76 (range: 62-95 years). Hypertension was the most frequent risk factor determined. Mean aortic diameter was found as 18.87 +/- 2.74 mm (range 15-26 mm) No significant associations were detected among risk factors, age groups, and aortic diameter Four cases with abdominal aortic aneurysm died. Discussion AM is the most frequently seen aneurysm among true aneurysms. Major risk factors for AAA include male gender. smoking history. and age >65 years. In advanced ages, particularly in men, screening for AAA reduced deaths caused by rupture. The patients should be assessed for surgical intervention by Taking risk factors into consideration. Large-scale screening studies can reduce risk for mortality.
- MakaleYalnız künye2016Disease and Death in the Modern Culture: On Now and Eternity
Demir, Sertac Timur
This paper is basically about nowism as a representation of modernity rather than a temporal fragment, about cancer as philosophical reference rather than as a biological illness, and about death as constructive value rather than as a destructive experience. All these representation-loaded concepts are dealt with through the story of Tessa, the protagonist in the film Now is Good (2012). In the liquid modernity, on the one hand nowist orientations, tendencies and acts are wryly reduced to a cliche: Carpe diem (seize the day) and on the other hand temporal uncertainty of death implies the essential principle of memento mori (remember you will die) or Mutu qabla an tamutu (die before you die). The now is, as a worldview beyond a temporality, not merely good, but perhaps the God of the modern society. However, deadly cancer, which is an uninvited guest, nullifies this modern doctrine that commercializes the now as eternity and immortality itself. Cancer that marks death and the sense of chaos what cancer stirs are antithesis and perhaps antidote of the liquid modernity. This paper, for the very reason, unexpectedly affirms death while criticising the nowist culture.