Erzählen(d) über den Tod hinaus

In Dignity Therapy, people talk and others listen. A device records and someone types. The oral becomes written and the ephemeral becomes preserved. It is touched - not only the soul, but also paper - people read quietly and read aloud, someone leaves, and something remains. A document, a legacy, memories. Through the attentive description of this psychological intervention for seriously ill people, the understanding of the generative narrative as a multidimensional structure - of language, body-mind, materiality and mediality - and through the analysis of interpretation and attribution of meaning of the actors involved, Andrea Zuger not only offers impulses for professional therapeutic action and ethical questions with her cultural studies analysis, but also gives indications of potential effect mechanism.