Everyone will face death, sooner or later. Based on our understanding of life forms, it is the inevitable ending, all living force will end up losing the battle with time and fall into the void of darkness. Death is universal, but not our responses and expectations. Our attitude and expectation toward the ending of life are constructed socially, there are many influential factors. In the readings I've read for this week, they tackled this issue in the manner of ritual, care giver's perspective, and a special emotional response - grief. The first essay I've read was written by Dr. Myerhoff. She understood death as a ritual drama. To her, we "yearn for a good death" (Myrhoff 1992:417). In the article, she discussed what makes a death good. …show more content…
She mentioned Harper's five-stage process of caregiver handling death. First stage is intellectualization (where the worker obtains an understanding of the diagnosis/ treatments); Second stage is increasingly uncomfortable with the dying process and starts to experiences sadness and guilt; Third stage is "grow or go" (Hasselkus 1993:446), if there is no sense of pain and grieving, the worker is likely to retreat from practice with dying patients and 'go'. But if it can grow, fourth stage will be developed; Fourth stage is an emotion stage that offers a sense of freedom, increase comfort with the dying and can cope with the idea of loss; Fifth stage, the last stage, is when the worker able to comfortably discussing about death issues like funeral arrangement, wills, and unfinished businesses. She concluded that coping with death is difficult for professions like occupational therapists too. The last reading was done by Dr. Klapper, Dr. Moss, Dr. Moss, and Dr. Rubinstein. They focused on adult daughters who have lost a parent …show more content…
Death isn't something everyone looked forward to facing. They provide many perspective to this 'forbidden topic'. The article I want to talk about is the first one because I think I am more related to it, as I am not a daughter and luckily my parents are still alive. The first reading present death as a ritual, and it is cultural. In China, we have an old saying of "death as light as a feather, or as heavy as a mountain", it told us to make our death worthy. I guess in a way, it showed us that death is an act to show our worthiness, and we should make our family proud, making our name listed in the history books. It became a ritual and even the funeral is just a ritual. The bigger, more beautiful (the location, fung-shui, and statues etc.) ones showed the greatness of the deceased one. Like the empire Qin Shi Huang from the Qin dynasty, upon his death, he copied his whole army and buried everything with him, as a sign of his total control and unchallenged power. But can these really benefit the deceased? Or is it all just a show? That is a question we can't
Death is the unavoidable fate of every single living person on this planet. There is nothing that anybody can do to avoid death. Not only does death occur, but it occurs in many ways that cannot be predicted. People die every day no-matter where they are on earth, some by old age, some by disease, others by whatever can get to them first to kill them. Everybody eventually must face the fact that they are going to die.
When it comes to death the typical person is not that knowledgeable about or understanding of death. People are very scared when the topic of death arises. We all want to live forever with no fear of having to explore the aspect of us dying and having to plan a funeral or their own funeral. Death is never an openly discussed topic. With death and dealing with it we are lucky to have the book Final Gifts by Callanan and Kelley. They have provided a ton of information to help us to grow strong and at ease with the area of death. I will tell my feelings on the book and how it has impacted me.
Next, we will discuss the biblical, theological, and cultural perspectives on the end of life issues. “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance.” When God created everything, he advised us about our time on earth before we inherit the promises in our heavenly home. “Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.” In today society, many people are dying at a young age for various reasons. One barrier is the change in our dietary. The older generations grew most of their own food. With my generation and afterwards, farm life decrease and more fast food chains increase. Farmers are now using more chemical to make the food grow faster to meet the need of the fast food chains. Also, there has been more man-made food and concepts. These options have impact life leading to more clog arteries, digestive issues, cancer, heart-attack, and others. Another barrier has been increase number in gang related death, suicide attempts and death, and being murder. “While most pastors, theologians and ethicists agreed that it was permissible to
“Death comes for us all” a quote by author Robert Jordan when discussing the inevitable end of life. One day we will all die, the only question is how? We hope that after living long and prosperous lives we pass into the further in a peaceful manner, but unfortunately that doesn’t always happen. What if death was waiting around every corner, ready to take anyone, young and old, man and woman, rich and poor, would that strike fear into the heart of people? If friends and family dropped like flies around you would you curse God and lose all hope? What could be the cause of what seems to be a nightmare yet you can never wake up, and what if the only way for the nightmare to end is for you to die and for
Death is an extremely touchy point to talk about. In "Native Guard" a book of sonnets composed by Natasha Trethewey. In the works of "Graveyard Blues", "After Your Death", and "Myth" death was the primary theme. Everything that is lives must bite the dust its regular and everybody has their own interpretation of death. Some can acknowledge death as a feature of life and feel great about it.
Death is something that people must deal with every day in our world, and there are several aspects of death that sometimes the living do not consider. For example, how does one celebrate or remember passed loved ones? What happens to you when you die? How would you like to be remembered? There are multiple ways to answer these questions, and examining differing points of view can be enlightening.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” (Mark Twain). This quote from the famous American writer is the basis for what became one of the hardest ideas to comprehend, death. Death has always been a complex term, causing one to struggle with what the true definition is. It is also hard to wrap your mind around what does it truly mean to die. These are the questions we long for the answer. Whether we acknowledge it or not, death has always been feared by many. Death remains an impossible question, one that has been unexplained since beginning of time. Even though dying is a natural, we as a human race still fear it. What can be done to defeat this never-ending battle? According to Montaigne’s “To Philosophize is to Learn to Die” and Cory Taylor’s “Questions for Me About Dying” we can overcome this by living to the fullest, living with no regrets, living a legacy, and lastly not fearing the inevitable. If you want to conquer the question of life, live in the moment.
Death is an inevitable fate for all living beings. It’s an aspect of life that can be hard to deal with, and the ability to overcome the fear of this unavoidable event can be difficult when it comes to knowing the reality of your fate in an
In Development Through Life, research on the perspectives of a good death are highly subjective and relate to a personally pleasant end. In the book, the author paints the portrait of a great-grandmother's approach to death by writing, "In this case, Great-Grandma reassures her children that she is ready-that she has experienced a full life and sees death as the next dance." (pg.612) Personally, a good death would be to enrich someone else's life by donating one or all of my vital organs. If It was my time to go whether young or old and one of my friends, family or even a stranger on the transplant waiting list needed a new organ, I would donate my heart or anything else that was necessary for their survival. I
It is inevitable that we will all die it is a fact that everyone must come to terms with. There comes a time in everyone’s life that they must face death; a friend’s tragic accident, a family member’s passing or their own battles with diseases. When faced with the idea of death people will act in different ways some may find it therapeutic to apologize for the negative they have done, some may want to spend time with loved ones to ease the future pain, and others may decide that their life was not what they believed. The story Death Constant Beyond Love tells us about a man named Senator Sanchez who is living a happy life with his wife and five kids. That is until he is told by doctors that he only has a short time to live. Death is
Death is often displayed in literature, showing how would people react towards it . Whether its in "The Story of An Hour" by Kate Chopin, "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, or even "The Garden Party" by Katherine Mansfield, death appears to be unavoidable. Although these are different short stories, death is applied, but the author's interpretations differentiate.
Everyone dies in the end and people know it, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently. Morrie has a lot of opinions about death as he is a dying man and I find all of them are so true. We never count our days as almost done and always believe that we are so far from that day. We do what we are supposed to do and walk around with a meaningless life, until that day comes automatically. My primary school teacher once told me to live like there’s no tomorrow. We should treasure our time and what we have and treat our days like we can die anytime with no
Death has always been and will be a topic that just a few want to talk, but since time immemorial man has worshiped their dead, and this is reflected in the various rituals and forms of burial. The anguish of death has been considered the deepest anguish of man. Death is the inevitable companion of life, is the final stage. It can occur at any age, suddenly or after a long illness. Despite knowing that someday we will have to die the death of a loved one is a terrible fact, very difficult to accept, that affects everyone around the deceased person. When the link with the deceased breaks, the suffering is so great, that they put into question the fundamentals of being, of human existence and our deepest beliefs, affecting significantly the basic family and social relationships.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross developed methods for counseling after personal traumas and grief related to the death and dying process. Higher stages of grief implementation, utilization occurs within the grief and hospice care. Kubler-Ross and Kessler (nd) indicates that misunderstanding surrounds her stages of death as those focused on the typical responses that people experience when they suffer a loss. Kubler-Ross and Kessler acknowledge how everyone is unique, and this includes his or her grieving process.
Every single person is boggling from death. Death of a person is very terrifying, yet the end of humanity and universe is not even imaginable. Humankind has been wondering how and when the Earth ends for thousands of years, to be prepared spiritually or religiously or to decide whether to spend all the money that a person has or enjoy the life more.