Our presence creates an existential bond that becomes a permanent part of who we are.
"Being there " was about conveying consolation through silent presencing, companionship, deep existential and religious conversations, and by supporting the patients' expressions of faith and rituals.
Just as the shoot of a film is the existential imprint of the director's presence, the completion of a film is the culmination of the passion that animates the entire project.
"She gives real presence to ideas about existential angst and alienation in a materialist society," Sierz added.
Nurses have a potential to alleviate existential and spiritual suffering through consoling presence.
Our results show that the challenge of consolation is related to the nurses' unavoidable experience of helplessness in the presence of dying patients' existential and spiritual suffering.
These are some of the fundamental questions of theodicy, of how faith can be justified and experienced in contrast and concert with the overwhelming penetration and presence of evil in our existential and social realities.
But the influence was also philosophical, with Godard attempting to make films that would fulfill the existential mission of real-time engagement, first-person presence, and confrontation with death.
However, this "cyber-humanitarianism" is believed to only enable a virtual presence and facilitate an epistemological and existential distancing (Duffield 2013, 2016).
The results suggest that through the power of consoling presence, nurses have a potential to alleviate existential and spiritual suffering.
