@techreport{oai:sapmed.repo.nii.ac.jp:00013859, author = {宮嶋, 俊一}, month = {Mar}, note = {Living alone inevitably entails many cases where bereavement might occur. Death certainly comes to all human beings, so it can be said that bereavement, as a matter of fact, is an unavoidable separation amongst many elderly people. However, despite we perish, we cannot erase completely the existence of the deceased person. According to our research, there were some cases which could be possible defined as "living with the deceased". Actions such as "to get hands on the altar every morning and to face the deceased person", as well as "to live with the belongings that remind us the dead" or "to live with the memories of that person”, might be a proper correlate that illustrates well such definition. On the other hand, there were some cases reported where relations with the dead were concluded as well, such as a "closed grave". However, regarding to these ones, we estimate that there are some difficulties within the living community itself, which might be not functioning sufficiently. The question of how the person who remains alive coexists with the deceased is linked to the problem of how such persons (elderly living alone) die. The current loss of human relations also brings about a loss of involvement with the deceased. So thinking about the posthumous death of the elderly is equivalent to some extent to think about the present situation of human relations. Related to that we might find what is called the practice of "cooperativeness after death" during lifetime.}, title = {「死者と共に生きる」ということについて(研究報告)}, year = {2018} }