Emotions of Separation and Cohesion during Death Rituals
Emotions of Separation and Cohesion during Death Rituals

Summary/Abstract: Death, as a universal phenomenon, is perceived among different people and cultures by different attitudes and worldviews. Death is talked about with coldness or it is not wanted to be talked about; death is considered a taboo subject, because the separation of a member of the group (family) from the life creates an emotional emptiness to the pain for the missing person. Pain is felt both by the individual and the group, therefore the emotion of separation created by the dead member of 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, about the emotion and cohesion, as well as on the studies on the ritual of death in terms of traditional Albanian culture. Also, based on empirical data from certain subjects, an emphasis is placed on the emotion of separation that creates death on the individual as well as on the cohesion or emotional interaction that is created within the group in order to ease the pain.

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