Table 2 Emergent Themes of Participant’s experience

Death moment description

flashing moments of presence

Distorted psyche on a journey to death

Death-stricken survivor mother

React to unpredictable news

Encountering the Risk

Encountering unpleasantreal events

Perceived threat of danger

Denying the existing reality

Outcome of the dispute with the death courier

Forced progress on an irreversible path

Stress

Fear

Feeling of guilt

Depression

Despair

uninterrupted crying

Extended sadness and grief

Feeling of loneliness

Irritability and aggression

Annoying thoughts about death

Post-traumatic stress

Hyper-arousal of death symbols

Avoid the shadow of death

Physical destruction in moving towards death

Physical destruction due to an ominous event

Persistent physical decadence

Destruction of apparent acceptability

Follow hard and exhausting treatments

Deviating from the direct road of everyday life

Vicissitudinous life after reviving

Trying to solve psychological effects

Late normal-life obtaining

Disruption in performing every day activities

Being dependent on the aid of others

Trying to suppress the tragic reality of life

Marital relations affected by the shadow of death

Damaged sexual intercourse

The shadow of disaster on those around the mother

Negative feelings regarding future childbearing

Emotional closeness

Negative psychological response of the spouse to the mother's illness

Shading of the ghost of death on families

A motherless child

Anxiety about the uncertain future

Uncertainty of the future

Concerns about the living conditions of loved ones after the death of the mother

Disruption in making social connections

Social distancing

Imposing exorbitant costs because of the disease

Sacrificing wealth for health

Resorting to the infinite power

Surrendering to the divine fate

Paying attention to spirituality to reach compatibility