A Sense of Absence: The Staging of Heroic Deaths and Ongoing Lives among American Organ Donor Families

Anja Marie Bornø Jensen

A Sense of Absence: The Staging of Heroic Deaths and Ongoing Lives among American Organ Donor Families

7 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

This chapter deals with particular human encounters of absence and loss as they are expressed by the families of American organ donors. After tragically losing a family member and saying yes to donation of the organs, many of the families of organ donors formulate perceptions of life, death, and organ donation that seem to insist on the continuing existence of the dead donor in different ways. These ideas are mainly structured and encouraged by the American organ organizations, supporting donor families in the time after the organ donation and wishing to transform the traumatic experience of losing a family member into positive sense-making stories about organ donation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	An Anthropology of Absence : Materialisations of Transcendence and Loss
Editors	Frida Hastrup, Mikkel Bille, Tim Flohr Sørensen
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date	2010
Pages	63-81
ISBN (Print)	9781441955289
Publication status	Published - 2010

Cite this

A Sense of Absence: The Staging of Heroic Deaths and Ongoing Lives among American Organ Donor Families. / Jensen, Anja Marie Bornø.
An Anthropology of Absence: Materialisations of Transcendence and Loss. ed. / Frida Hastrup; Mikkel Bille; Tim Flohr Sørensen. London: Springer Publishing Company, 2010. p. 63-81.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research

@inbook{1d207300149611df803f000ea68e967b,

title = "A Sense of Absence: The Staging of Heroic Deaths and Ongoing Lives among American Organ Donor Families",

abstract = "This chapter deals with particular human encounters of absence and loss as they are expressed by the families of American organ donors. After tragically losing a family member and saying yes to donation of the organs, many of the families of organ donors formulate perceptions of life, death, and organ donation that seem to insist on the continuing existence of the dead donor in different ways. These ideas are mainly structured and encouraged by the American organ organizations, supporting donor families in the time after the organ donation and wishing to transform the traumatic experience of losing a family member into positive sense-making stories about organ donation.",

author = "Jensen, {Anja Marie Born{\o}}",

year = "2010",

language = "English",

isbn = "9781441955289",

pages = "63--81",

editor = "Frida Hastrup and Mikkel Bille and {Flohr S{\o}rensen}, Tim",

booktitle = "An Anthropology of Absence",

publisher = "Springer Publishing Company",

}

TY - CHAP

T1 - A Sense of Absence

T2 - The Staging of Heroic Deaths and Ongoing Lives among American Organ Donor Families

AU - Jensen, Anja Marie Bornø

PY - 2010

Y1 - 2010

N2 - This chapter deals with particular human encounters of absence and loss as they are expressed by the families of American organ donors. After tragically losing a family member and saying yes to donation of the organs, many of the families of organ donors formulate perceptions of life, death, and organ donation that seem to insist on the continuing existence of the dead donor in different ways. These ideas are mainly structured and encouraged by the American organ organizations, supporting donor families in the time after the organ donation and wishing to transform the traumatic experience of losing a family member into positive sense-making stories about organ donation.

AB - This chapter deals with particular human encounters of absence and loss as they are expressed by the families of American organ donors. After tragically losing a family member and saying yes to donation of the organs, many of the families of organ donors formulate perceptions of life, death, and organ donation that seem to insist on the continuing existence of the dead donor in different ways. These ideas are mainly structured and encouraged by the American organ organizations, supporting donor families in the time after the organ donation and wishing to transform the traumatic experience of losing a family member into positive sense-making stories about organ donation.

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 9781441955289

SP - 63

EP - 81

BT - An Anthropology of Absence

A2 - Hastrup, Frida

A2 - Bille, Mikkel

A2 - Flohr Sørensen, Tim

PB - Springer Publishing Company

CY - London

ER -

A Sense of Absence: The Staging of Heroic Deaths and Ongoing Lives among American Organ Donor Families

Abstract

Fingerprint

Cite this