2018
DOI: 10.22613/zfpp/5.1.8
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‚Rückkehr in die Kindheit‘ oder ‚Tod bei lebendigem Leib‘? Ethische Aspekte der Altersdemenz in der Perspektive des Lebensverlaufs

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“…Thus, at first sight, one may argue that the self of people with dementia is a severely fragmented and reduced self, which becomes more fragmented and reduced the more the disease progresses. Such an understanding of the self of people with dementia is in line with contemporary discourses on dementia, which often metaphorically depict dementia as a “return to childhood” or as “living death” [ 26 ]. While the first metaphor expresses a more positive evaluation of the disease than the latter, both share the assumption that people with dementia have a severely impaired self, either because they relive the seemingly innocent state of childhood or because they are practically dead already, zombies without inner depth.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 66%
“…Thus, at first sight, one may argue that the self of people with dementia is a severely fragmented and reduced self, which becomes more fragmented and reduced the more the disease progresses. Such an understanding of the self of people with dementia is in line with contemporary discourses on dementia, which often metaphorically depict dementia as a “return to childhood” or as “living death” [ 26 ]. While the first metaphor expresses a more positive evaluation of the disease than the latter, both share the assumption that people with dementia have a severely impaired self, either because they relive the seemingly innocent state of childhood or because they are practically dead already, zombies without inner depth.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 66%
“…According to this approach originally formulated in developmental psychology and the sociology of ageing, individual existence in time is not just a continuous biological process. Instead, it is also shaped by a variety of normative standards of age-appropriate behaviour, evaluative mea-sures of ageing well, and teleological conceptions of human development which ethics has to make explicit and discuss (Schweda, 2017).…”
Section: Biographical Inadequacymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In doing so, we adopt a life course perspective that seeks to account for the ethical significance of the temporal extension and structure of human life. According to this perspective, individual existence in time is characterized by normative standards of age-appropriate behaviour, evaluative measures of ageing well, and teleological notions of successful development whose implications must be analysed and discussed (Schweda, 2017). Such a perspective can contribute significantly to spelling out the moral implications of the metaphor of death while alive and to highlighting its shortcomings.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Werner Schneider (2005) beobachtet eine Remoralisierung des Todes, die wieder handlungsleitende Vorstellungen etabliert und so wieder eine Vergemeinschaftung der Sterbenden erlaubt. Und im Zusammenhang mit Entscheidungen, die Sterbende und ihre Angehörigen am Lebensende zu fällen haben, wird ein Wandel der Sterbeideale beobachtet, der in Anlehnung an die spätmittelalterliche Idee des Sterbens als erlernbarer Kunst, der ars moriendi, auch unter dem Schlagwort ars moriendi nova verhandelt wird (Schäfer, Frewer und Müller-Busch 2012, 15;Schweda 2014). Anders als die ars moriendi im 15.…”
Section: Introductionunclassified
“…Im Kontext dieser Vollendungsidee wird der Zeitpunkt des Sterbens und des Todes relevant. Je nachdem, welche ihrer wesentlichen Lebensziele Sterbende vor ihrem Tod verwirklichen konnten, kann der Eintritt von Sterben und Tod als zu früh oder zu spät betrachtet werden -oder im Sinne der Vollendungsidee als der richtige Zeitpunkt gedeutet werden (Schweda 2014).…”
Section: Introductionunclassified