Qualitative analysis of meanings concerning death and dying stemming from the Dutch article series 'the last word' (NRC Handelsblad, 2011-2013)

This dataset is an ATLAS.ti copy bundle that contains the analysis of 86 articles that appeared between March 2011 and March 2013 in the Dutch quality newspaper NRC Handelsblad in the weekly article series 'the last word' [Dutch: 'het laatste woord'] that were written by NRC editor Gijsbert van Es. Newspaper texts have been retrieved from LexisNexis (academic.lexisnexis.nl/). These articles describe the experience of the last phase of life of people who were confronted with approaching death due to cancer or other life-threatening diseases, or due to old age and age-related health losses.

The analysis focuses on the meanings concerning death and dying that were expressed by these people in their last phase of life. The data-set was analysed with ATLAS.ti and contains a codebook. In the memo manager a memo is included that provides information concerning the analysed data.