Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Within academic discussions of death and dying, there is a deficit of qualitative studies on how young adults view personal death. This article explores young adults’ (18-24) views on personal death using inductive coding of the transcriptions of three 1:1 interviews and one focus group. Soto’s findings show that young adults view their personal death in three ways: 1) they reflect on family death experiences as frames of reference for personal death, 2) they rely on a life well- lived to ease anxiety around personal death, and 3) they use humor as a coping mechanism in thinking about and discussing personal death. These findings suggest that death greatly impacts young adults’ lives and connections to people. Soto offers a starting point for future research on young adults’ conceptualization of death and dying.
Source: Anthós
Author: Victor Soto
Institution: Portland State University
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4412107794