Sights and Sounds of Grief: Ancestral Voices and Pictorial Images as Posthumous Neurocognitive Means of Healing and Hope

Abstract

This research study conducted examined how digital photographic legacies expressed in both pictorial images and media voice recordings affect, shape
and impact mourning and remembrance relative to a person’s experience with grief and loss. Efforts were initiated to examine a person’s ability to address grief and also emotionally heal in the face of death and loss. A qualitative methodology was utilized in collecting archival and social data gathered through intensive media-elicitative interviews, journal articles, professional reports, researcher-generated photography, and extant data collections.