Metáfora de la muerte como un proceso continuo: Relación entre significados de la muerte y bienestar psicológico en cuidadores primarios de pacientes fallecidos a causa de cáncer en la ciudad de Bogotá, desde una comprensión teórica gestáltica

Abstract

The experience of death is an experience that can give greater meaning in the life of those who experience it, this shows that the way primary caregivers mean this experience becomes relevant to understand the way they relate to the death of their relative, this is how death goes to be from a simple biological event to a whole social-historical-cultural construction that leads to the person having a meaning of death in his life and a personal position before it. The objective of this investigation is to understand the relationship between the experience of death and the psychological well-being in primary caregivers of patients who died of cancer in the city of Bogota, from a Gestalt theoretical understanding. For this, a sample was taken from 3 primary caregivers (2 women, 1 man) from patients who died of cancer, with whom a semi-structured interview was conducted and the Wagnil and Young (1993) resilience scale test was applied. Obtaining as a result that this experience is a point of change in the life of the participants, the meanings of death obtained previously trace the way to experience this event and create new visions about life, death and disease (Cancer) the way in which their psychological well-being is immersed at the time of fulfilling the role of primary carer and at the time of death of the family member.