The book by researcher Svetlana Eremeeva is an analysis of representations of military funerals in 2022 in public space. The author sought to find out not so much how military personnel are buried today, but what this means for his loved ones, for society and the state as a whole. By defining the contours of the life worlds behind the farewells of the dead, the author shows the inconsistency of the rhetoric about “brotherly” peoples of almost a single culture. A study of the life world in Russia and Ukraine makes it possible to notice how different these countries are today in their sociocultural parameters; At the same time, the processes that influenced how this difference has increased over the past 20 years are monitored. The study of the social functioning of grief, grief and mourning fits into modern trends in humanitarian thought, which are little or not represented at all in the Russian-language tradition.

The issues of human loss, death and mourning have become an integral part of humanitarian theories associated with reflections on human dignity and the principles of its coexistence with others.