EMOCIONI I NDARJES DHE KOHEZIONI GJATË RITIT TË VDEKJES
EMOTION OF SEPARATION AND COHESION DURING THE RITE OF DEATH

Summary/Abstract: Death, as a universal phenomenon, is perceived by different attitudes and worldviews among people and between different cultures. About death is talked with coldness or is not wanted to talk about it, death is considered a taboo subject, because separating from the life of a member of the group (family) creates an emotional emptiness to the pain of the missing person. Pain is felt both by the individual and the group, so the emotion of separating a dead member from the group, strengthens the cohesion and moral unity within the group to ease the pain. Depending on the relation of the dead to the group, the pain appears more intense or less intense. This paper relies on theoretical studies about death as a universal phenomenon, emotion and cohesion, as well as studies on the ritual of death in terms of traditional Albanian culture. Also, by empirical methodology from certain subjects, an emphasis is placed on the emotion of separation that creates death in the individual as well as on the cohesion or emotional interaction that is created within the group to ease the pain.

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