Meaning of death among care workers of geriatric institutions in a death-avoidant culture: Qualitative descriptive analyses of in-depth interviews by Buddhist priests

• Yukan Ogawa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Regional Development, Taisho University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Akinori Takase,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Regional Development, Taisho University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Masaya Shimmei,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychology and Welfare, Den-en Chofu University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Shiho Toishiba,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo, Japan

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• Chiaki Ura,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

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• Mari Yamashita,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

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• Tsuyoshi Okamura

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: t.okamura.jp@gmail.com

  Affiliation Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5879-6051

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