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VENI grant for research proposal 'Memento Mori revisited'


12 June 2020


Researcher Els van Wijngaarden from the University of Humanistic Studies received a so called Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council NWO for her research proposal Memento mori revisited: unravelling the role of choice regarding death and dying in old age. The Veni grant, along with Vidi and Vici is a part of NWO's Talent Scheme programme.


Our attitude towards death is undergoing a fascinating change. A growing group of older people is determined to exercise choice and control over the time and manner of dying, resulting in a new awareness of death. The Veni-project of Els van Wijngaarden breaks scientific ground by exploring the impact of the growing emphasis on choice regarding death upon how we live towards the end of life. It unravels the socio-cultural and relational dynamics related to such choices. 


Els van Wijngaarden is an associate professor and researcher at the University for Humanistic Studies in the department of Care Ethics. With her PhD on ‘completed life in old age’, she was one of the first to explore experiences of relatively healthy older people with a strong wish for a self-directed death as they considered their lives no longer worth living. Recently, she led a one-year follow-up inquiry into completed life which is a cooperation between the UvH and the medical centre UMCU, and resulted in the so called PERSPECTIEF report.


Read more on this VENI project (you go to the Dutch website).

Researcher Els van Wijngaarden from the University of Humanistic Studies received a so called Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council NWO for her research proposal Memento mori revisited: unravelling the role of choice regarding death and dying in old age. The Veni grant, along with Vidi and Vici is a part of NWO's Talent Scheme programme.