Luto vivido pela família da pessoa que foi a óbito na pandemia COVID-19

Abstract

Death and bereavement usually present themselves as difficult processes to face. In the context of the covid-19 pandemic, the psychological impacts were even more intense. In this context, the investigation proposed here has as its object the veiled phenomenon in the existence of family members mourning the loss of a relative who died from COVID-19, during the pandemic, with the objective of understanding, through existential phenomenology, the experience of family members. mourning the loss of a relative who died from COVID-19 during the pandemic. With a descriptive qualitative design with a phenomenological approach, the study was developed based on the following guiding question: What is the veiled phenomenon in the existence of family members mourning the loss of a relative who died from COVID-19, during the pandemic? The phenomenological interviews were conducted using a semi-structured script, applied to 10 family members who lost relatives as a result of COVID-19, during the period from January 2022 to March 2022. After transcribing the interviews based on Heidegger's comprehensive methodical moments, the results were grouped into four ontological thematic categories: being-in-the-world in veiled mourning during the COVID-19 pandemic, which addressed how the characteristics of mourning in pandemic times imply being bereaved; transcending being-mourning for their relative who died from COVID-19, a category that exposes the feelings and difficulties that permeated the death of their family members; temporality of grief experienced by family members during the pandemic, a category that explains the time that each family member dimensioned their grief; and the grieving family member faced with the possibility of death, revealing the existential transformations arising from the process of coping with grief. It was concluded that in the course of the shared experiences, a world of meanings and senses was presented, still hidden by the suffering of losing a relative in such terrifying circumstances, which requires a meticulous and attentive look at the theme.