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Table 2.1 Components of the Death System
Component Examples
Individuals Everyone; participants in funerals; professionals that often face death,
e.g. doctors, rescuers, investigators, soldiers.
Places
Funeral homes; graveyards; hospitals; memorial parks and open-air
Times museums (former battlefields).
Objects Anniversaries; memorial events; individual and collective rituals
Symbols/ (planned or spontaneous).
languages
Memorials; salvaged items related to death, e.g. weapons, uniforms.
Some religious symbols; special phrases for expressing sorrow and
compassion (directly or indirectly).
Notes Adapted from Kastenbaum (2007).
other characteristics, including typologies, listed in this chapter, then it
can be reasonably concluded that the death system is highly compatible
with dark tourism.
Jere Jakulin (2017) identified and described elements of the basic
tourism system and interactions/relationships among them – see Fig-
ure 2.3. The complex non-linear tourism system is an open system and
can thus be considered and understood only in the context of its envi-
ronment (Baggio, 2008; Gharajedaghi, 2006; Jere Jakulin, 2017). Hence,
Cilliers (in Jere Jakulin, 2017, p. 210, and Baggio 2008, p. 7), among others,
identified the following symptoms of complexity and adaptability:
• ‘complex systems are usually open and their state is far from an equi-
librium,’ and
• ‘complex systems have a history, the “future” behaviour depends on
the past one.’
In this context, we can conclude that a complex tourism system is, be-
cause of its flexibility and openness, compatible with the death system,
which can form a complex and uniform dark tourism system. Additional
arguments include linkage to past events and a (historical) transforma-
tion in definite space. Such a unified system should consist of at least the
elements from Table 2.1 and Figure 2.3. Its exact structure and interac-
tions/relationships among elements go beyond this study.
Special emphasis in future research of the exact structure and inter-
nal relations within the dark tourism system should be placed on tourist
motivations in relation to death. Young and Light (2016, p. 69) made a
brief review of dark tourism-related papers and actually found that, de-
spite a growing body of research into the motives of tourists, there is lit-
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Table 2.1 Components of the Death System
Component Examples
Individuals Everyone; participants in funerals; professionals that often face death,
e.g. doctors, rescuers, investigators, soldiers.
Places
Funeral homes; graveyards; hospitals; memorial parks and open-air
Times museums (former battlefields).
Objects Anniversaries; memorial events; individual and collective rituals
Symbols/ (planned or spontaneous).
languages
Memorials; salvaged items related to death, e.g. weapons, uniforms.
Some religious symbols; special phrases for expressing sorrow and
compassion (directly or indirectly).
Notes Adapted from Kastenbaum (2007).
other characteristics, including typologies, listed in this chapter, then it
can be reasonably concluded that the death system is highly compatible
with dark tourism.
Jere Jakulin (2017) identified and described elements of the basic
tourism system and interactions/relationships among them – see Fig-
ure 2.3. The complex non-linear tourism system is an open system and
can thus be considered and understood only in the context of its envi-
ronment (Baggio, 2008; Gharajedaghi, 2006; Jere Jakulin, 2017). Hence,
Cilliers (in Jere Jakulin, 2017, p. 210, and Baggio 2008, p. 7), among others,
identified the following symptoms of complexity and adaptability:
• ‘complex systems are usually open and their state is far from an equi-
librium,’ and
• ‘complex systems have a history, the “future” behaviour depends on
the past one.’
In this context, we can conclude that a complex tourism system is, be-
cause of its flexibility and openness, compatible with the death system,
which can form a complex and uniform dark tourism system. Additional
arguments include linkage to past events and a (historical) transforma-
tion in definite space. Such a unified system should consist of at least the
elements from Table 2.1 and Figure 2.3. Its exact structure and interac-
tions/relationships among elements go beyond this study.
Special emphasis in future research of the exact structure and inter-
nal relations within the dark tourism system should be placed on tourist
motivations in relation to death. Young and Light (2016, p. 69) made a
brief review of dark tourism-related papers and actually found that, de-
spite a growing body of research into the motives of tourists, there is lit-
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