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SURVIVAL
Motive:
1. the characteristics of human condition (a temporary existence in a vulnerable
organic structure) and the presence of numerous aggressive factors at work in
our inner and outer environments;
2. the remarkable efforts people make in order to stay alive;
3. the relative difficulty experienced by those who decide to put an end to their
lives, i.e., the complexity of the decision making process and the reaction of
the public coming into contact with suicidal behaviour victims, a reaction
characterised in many cases by dogma, ignorance and prejudice.
Linguistic description
Etymology: ME surviven < OFr survivre < L supervivere < super- = above,
beyond; vivere = to live.
Definition: survival
1. The act or fact of surviving, esp. under adverse or unusual circumstances.
2. A person or thing that survives or endures, esp. an ancient custom, observance,
belief, or the like.
Synonym: continuation, endurance.
Definition: to survive
1. To live or exist longer than or beyond the life or existence of; to outlive.
2. To continue to live after or in spite of.
Synonym: to outlive, to last, to persist, to exist.
Word family: 1. survival (n), 2. survivor (n), 3. survivability (n), 4. survivorship
(n), 5. survivalism (n), 6. survivalist (n), 7. to survive (v), 8. survival (adj), 9.
survivable (adj).
E.g.:
1. Among the majority of patients with advanced stage disease so treated, immune
response augmentation appears to prolong survival.
2. The survivors of the fire were taken to a hospital.
3. Survivability is the ability to remain alive or continue to exist; Title:
Developmental competence and post-thaw survivability of buffalo embryos produced
in vitro.
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4. Survivorship is the condition of being a survivor; brain tumour survivorship
involves much more than the label “survivor.” Survivorship is an ever-changing
process, an experience of living with, through, or beyond brain tumour disease.
5. Survivalism is a commonly used term for the preparedness strategy and subculture
of individuals or groups anticipating and making preparations for future possible
disruptions in local, regional or worldwide social or political order.
6. Survivalists often prepare for this anticipated disruption by learning skills (e.g.,
emergency medical training), stockpiling food and water, preparing for self-defense
and self-sufficiency, and/or building structures that will help them to survive or
"disappear."
7. Few survived after the holocaust; He survived the operation.
8. Survival techniques.
9. Would an atomic war be survivable?; A survivable, but very serious, illness.
Phrases: survival of the fittest; survival analysis; survival tips / tricks /
techniques / skills; survival gear / equipment / kit / tools / supplies; wilderness
survival / tropical island survival / outdoor survival; torture survivor /war
survivor / lung cancer survivor.
Related notions: life, life expectation, life span, death, immortality, NDE (near death
experience).
Factors that determine the need to survive and those creating the tendency to self-
destruction:
Biological and psychological life preservation motivations vs. suicide, eugenics
and euthanasia; Sigmund Freud’s life and death wish theory; suicide as rational
decision (e.g.: soldiers – avoid capture, avoid revealing information under torture;
extermination camp prisoners – avoid suffering by drinking tobacco tea or
learning to slow down the heart rate ); media and the suicide epidemics.
The role of education in favour or against self-inflicted death (e.g.: Christian
dogma vs. Japanese traditions and radical Islamic teachings).
Our understanding of the purpose of existence (philosophical, religious, and
subjective points of view and the idea of purpose, given or created by us).
Factors that shorten or prolong life:
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Individual level: biological, psychological, social and cultural identity and
lifestyle.
External components: time and space co-ordinates + social, political, economic
and environmental systems, health care systems, prohealth education, including
respect for others + war, natural catastrophe, and accidents.
Natural and artificial factors – e.g.: population growth; increase in elderly
population; depletion of natural resources; pollution of air, water and the soil;
species dying out; climate change; the perspective of famine; financial instability
and unemployment; conflicts escalating into local or regional wars; negative
impact of science and technology (computer addiction; large scale use of food
additives; loss of privacy due to electronic surveillance; theft of personal data
including credit cards data; iatrogenic death; genetically modified foods; the arms
race ).
Types of survival:
Physical, psychological, social, moral, intellectual, cultural, linguistic, and
spiritual.
Levels of survival:
Individual (human, animal, vegetal), community, planet (Gaia theory = planet as a
complex interacting system; Solaris), universe (death of the universe theory).
The Romanian case.
The survivor type
Characteristics and examples; Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe vs. superheroes
(Superman, Batman, Spider-Man and X-Men).
The student survival guide.
Survivor stories.
Are you a survivor?
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