Death And Grieving Research Paper

To begin, there are many aspects of helping patients that are dealing with grief, loss, death, or dying. Whether the patient has lost someone that was close to them or they themselves are dying, the situation is quite fragile. Some important aspects that may help when handling these patients are knowledge about the different cultures and their beliefs and traditions, different factors that have an impact on grief, and how to communicate with people living on the edge of life. These are all extremely important matters when it comes to such a sensitive situation.

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.

People here in the United States, tend to discuss the topic of death and burial as little as possible and is something people always put in the back of their mind. They do not think about it or discuss it until the proper moment has come. Someone dies, and we bury them. We do not go to great lengths to almost "drag-out" the experience of death, as other cultures do. There is an American tradition that people visit the person 's grave or other sanctified spaces on occasion, but that 's the extent of our interaction with the dead in American culture. This is also a topic that as Americans, are not discussed. In other places, in other cultures, and in other lives based on how one is raised, people are not always so squeamish about death and have a continuing relationship with the deceased bodies of their family members, friends, and neighbors.

Whenever the topic of death arises, at least in American culture, it is treated with special care and caution. We unofficially and yet unanimously treat death as a taboo. Not many people enjoy talking about death or the potential of their deaths. People tend only to discuss death when buying life insurance or creating a will. Other than this, details about the aftermath of their death are never discussed until they are on their deathbed. This practice leaves few seconds for loved ones to collect thoughts and explain their last

Death and dying is a natural and unavoidable process that all living creatures will experience at some point in life, whether it is one’s own person death or the death of a close friend or family member. Along with the experience of death comes the process of grieving which is the dealing and coping with the loss of the loved one. Any living thing can grieve and relate to a loss, even children (Shortle, Young, & Williams, 1993). “Childhood grief and mourning of family and friends may have immediate and long-lasting consequences including depression, anxiety, social withdrawal, behavioral disturbances, and school underachievement” (Kaufman & Kaufman, 2006, p. 61). American children today grow up in cultures that attempt to avoid grief and

When you die you lose memories surrounding the event that led to your death - that means running back to your body or the area after dying is forbidden. However, you keep the knowledge about your group, friends, enemies and other people that you've met before that event.

The work of grieving is an alternation between remembering and hoping. Remembering liberates the past by admitting the finality of death and hoping creates room for the future. People need hope to do the painful work of remembering. Finding hope is seldom a solitary experience. Sometimes we borrow that hope from a friend or a pastoral person whose empathic words confirm our grief and validate our grieving. In this way, hoping is an experience of mutuality. It is the experience of mutuality that transforms our dread of abandonment and our terrors of isolation into sustaining communities of hoping. Those who grieve the loss of someone they love are often isolated in their grief by our unwillingness to go with them to those places where

When we were first assigned this paper few questions came to mind “is there a good death”, “who would want to die?” and who would plan for it to be”good”? Who wants to be buried under the face of earth, surrounded by darkness and loneliness? Is not everything we learn at health institutions aims at keeping people in good health and best living quality? Who would accept death?

Growing up, I was introduced to death and funerals. I understood what was happening, but I never knew what was going on. I would ask the questions, “Are they coming back?” or, “ Do they even get a second chance of life?”

One person who has been assassinating many people for the last 43 years, he was arrested in 2006 and has passed away couple hours ago in a prison hospital. He had serveral illness including a bladder cancer and he just couldn’t hold much longer. In my opinion, I believe that allowing this one guy to pass away was a good idea because now there is no threat about a mafia in italy until eventually someone resumes all the killing and illegal actions. The reason why I thought this was interesting was because i couldn;t believe that a single person could be on the run for four decades. At first I thought this was a lie because i was assuming that a person would get hamdcuffed and placed to jail after at least a week from running. Not only was it

In Homer’s Iliad and Thucydides ' History the death of loved ones and the mistreatment of their bodies provoke a variety of profound emotions and reactions. The mistreatment of Patroclus’ and Hector’s bodies results in the inability of the soul to pass into the afterlife, the grief of families and friends, and, once the funeral takes place, the celebration of their kleos and timē by their communities. The catastrophic plague in Athens, by contrast, creates a state of hedonistic lawlessness among the citizenry due to the unpredictability of death and the breakdown of democratic ideals as previously articulated by Pericles, while the civil war in Corcyra shows the personal animosity people have to one another and the violent inclinations within social groupings.

Over the second half of this semester, we have learned many different concepts and phases regarding the death of a loved one. Overall, we learned and recognized the difference between funeral rites and body disposition, the five stages of bereavement and how different survivors may respond to the death of a loved one, the different options of support groups available for families, how to support the bereaved and what death might be like in the future, etc. Everyone is different, every culture is different and every religion is different, so it is important to learn the psychology surrounding these areas when regarding the death of a loved one. Throughout this paper, I will be outlining some major topics we have learned thus far in the semester

I would say there were a few class discussions that I personally connected to, but it is easier to write about it than talk about it in class for me. Our in-class writing 12 I specifically connected with number one which states “Our suffering is not unique but is shared by millions and trillions of other beings, animal as well as human. We find out that we have cancer, and we breathe in the fear, the disbelief, the pain of all cancer patients and send relief to all. We lose someone dear to us, and it connects to everyone who is overcome with grief. We lie awake with insomnia, and it links us to countless others who are lying awake. On the spot, we breathe in our sleeplessness and the sleeplessness of others, breathe in our anxiety, our agitation, and the same discomfort felt by others. On the spot, we send out restfulness, peace of mind, contentment” (p. 81). I feel I struggle with this personally because I am a very closed person and do not like to share my suffering or grief. I have to face though it isn’t my decision because I cannot stop people from suffering the same events that I suffer in my life, it is all out of our hands and allows us to form much deeper connections without knowing. I believe I most struggle with my grief in the loss of my father, which I know I am not the only one to lose my father in the world, but it is hard for me to think that as I write this paper right now another little girl could be losing her dad. Not only do you share suffering with complete strangers, but you share it with your closest friends and family the most without thinking about it. In the book it states, “The word tonglen is Tibetan for “sending and receiving”.” This makes me think of the willingness to share/send our grief and the willingness of others to take/receive it and help us through it or vice versa for us to take someone’s grief/suffering and help them through it even if you may be suffering as well. If we do not try to face our suffering on our own, I believe it could help lessen it and possible help you to overcome it by allowing others to help you, but nevertheless if you overcome this obstacle there will always be another one to face in the future.

The first reason of how different cultures perceive death is if people prefer funeral homes or do it yourself after-care. Some people prefer to take their deceased family members or friends to funeral home. “In a society where seeing death and speaking of it is often taboo, home funeral

Have you ever had the courage to go a Funeral? Well I have, not wanting too. A funeral might be the saddest things to go to watching people cry right in front of you and having to see the dead body in front of you. Having to be their might be the worst thing to sit through and that was only beginning of it.