Narrativas de luto na pandemia de Covid-19 em Palmas-TO: costurando retalhos de perdas em busca de ressignificação

Abstract

This study aimed to describe how three women who lost close family members to the new coronavirus in 2021 understand the grieving process. Specifically, we sought to narrate the experience of grief during the COVID-19 pandemic of the participants, identify the narratives used by them in the search for a new meaning of this grief and outline the consequences of grief in the lives of the participants. This is a qualitative and descriptive study. Three women, aged between 27 and 75 years old, residing in Palmas-TO and who lost between 1 and 2 family members due to death due to COVID 19, volunteered to participate. field and the narratives were analyzed. We obtained the following results: a) The narratives of mourning resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic are permeated with comings and goings, not obeying a linearity, as they are reports that go beyond the most diverse feelings in an introspective way; b) The process of reframing the mourning resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic is affected not only by the absence of relationships previously built with the deceased subject, but also by the impossibility of carrying out the funeral rites in the manner in which they are established, a fact that causes a slowdown in the process of overcoming grief; c) The consequences of mourning in the lives of the participants had great impacts on their social relationships, both positive, such as getting closer to family members, and negative, such as isolation, arising from the difficulty of overcoming it. We conclude that by narrating the experience of grief in the pandemic of the three participants, we understand that talking about the grief process can be a balm for those who are submerged in this swamp. In this way, we identified the narratives used by the participants in the search for resignification. The use of these metaphors in the mourning narratives in the COVID-19 pandemic gave a certain lightness to the burden we placed on our backs when dealing with such a complex subject, but which allowed us to understand the paradox arising from the consequence of mourning in the lives of the collaborators of this research. Thus, we use the metaphors of ONÇA, FORTALEZA and ÁRVORE to identify and analyze the narratives of the participants.