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- This article argues that state bureaucracy played a key role in defining people’s experience of wartime bereavement, both practically, through the paperwork sent, but also temporally, by controlling when and how families could carry out grave-related elements of mourning, such as choosing an epitaph.
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Feb 17, 2022 · The bureaucracy of death had the power to shape family mourning, protracting grief through the slow progression of irregular paperwork, and casting a long shadow over those who had to deal with these paper-based reminders of death.
Feb 22, 2022 · This article argues that state bureaucracy played a key role in defining people’s experience of wartime bereavement, both practically, through the paperwork sent, but also temporally, by controlling when and how families could carry out grave-related elements of mourning, such as choosing an epitaph.
Jul 31, 2024 · From forms to ensure that the correct next of kin details were present, through to War Office notifications of death, the families of the new citizen army were introduced to a death-based bureaucracy like never before. Military paperwork had long been necessary to control great numbers of troops.
The regulation of bodies by people outside of the family was an experience shared by the families of the war and disaster dead. Conventionally, the family of the deceased controlled the body of their loved one—the state only intervened if there was nobody to claim the corpse.
Feb 25, 2004 · While people will continue to die in the hospital setting, it is likely, given demographic changes in the UK, increased social mobility and smaller family sizes, that many will face their own dying and death in a nursing or residential home.
- Catherine Exley
- 2004
Until recently, care of the dying, as well as death itself, took place in the home. Today modern bureaucratic institutions have, for the most part, not only removed death from the home, but have also effectively concealed many aspects of death and dying from patients and their families.
‘The Bureaucracy of Death Do you know what to do when someone dies?’. This was the title the Bereavement Advice Centre used in 2010 when we surveyed a wide range of professionals and volunteers, including those from Cruse Bereavement Care, involved in giving care during the end of life care/bereavement pathway.
