Visions: Perspectives of Living-Dying
Abstract
This article presents a Rogerian perspective on living-dying through a dialogic narrative situated in a health care facility. Drawing on Rogers' Science of Unitary Human Beings, the work illustrates living-dying as a developmental, pandimensional process rather than a linear cause-and-effect event. Through evolving conversations among patients, nurses, and clinicians, the narrative reveals how awareness, patterning, and integrality shape experiences of dying, care, and wellbecoming. The integration of the arts and humanities-music, poetry, and dialog-offers nurses creative modalities to deepen understanding of living-dying and to support compassionate, unitary nursing practice in clinical and educational settings.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Palliative and Oncologic Care
Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
Religion
Spirituality
and Psychology
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Advances in Nursing Science
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 218–224
- Publication date
- 10 February 2026
- Language
- EN