Articles

• Published in: Frontières
• Main Author: Frédéric Laugrand
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Université du Québec à Montréal 2018
• Subjects: Sciences Humaines et Sociales; Social Sciences and Humanities; Inuit; mort; défunts; âme; tarniq; atiq; mort imminente; death; deceased; soul; near-death experiences; hist; hisphilso; Nunavut; Rasmussen; inuit
• Online Access: https://www.tunngavik.com/files/2015/09/2015-09-14-Statistical-Historical-Suicide-Date-Eng.pdf; https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1044163ar; https://doi.org/10.7202/1044163ar; https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/fr/2018-v29-n2-fr03541/1044163ar/; https://core.ac.uk/display/156961962; https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2801854578

Based on Inuit testimonies collected in the 1920s by Knud Rasmussen and almost a century later by the author during several knowledge tansmission workshops held in Nunavut, this article argues that Inuit elders do not fear death. On the contrary, death has a real power of attraction which the younge...