Explain The Rationale For The Cause Of Death And Suicide

Using material from Item A and elsewhere, assess different sociological explanations of suicide. (21 marks)

Death is an elementary word harboring many meanings. It is the feeling of being caught in the grip of inevitably. It is a personal realization that you too are mortal. It is the recognition that one's life is changed forever. The shiny image of a once bright world full of promise dulls. Unfortunately, every individual will experience the death of a loved one at least once in their life. No words can soothe the agony of losing a loved one. State legislatures are familiar with this grief and have created either a coroner system or a medical examiner system. A coroner system consists of a coroner whose responsible for identifying the decreased body, alerting the family members or anyone of close relation, signing the death certificate and

I have learnt that even though a patient has died; communication, dignity, respect and advocacy is still fundamental. I have also learnt that last offices are carried out differently depending on the individual’s religion. Before this experience, I assumed that it would be carried out the same, I now know to make sure to check the patient's notes and research their religious belief on last offices in the future. I have realised that the care given to individuals of different religions may also differ during all aspects of care not only after death.

According to the Suicide Awareness Voices of Education or SAVE, suicide is rated as the 10th leading cause of death in the US, including victims of all ages. Many people come up with the thought of death as an alternative for when an obstacle is met. They believe that death will set them free from the troublesome chains that keep pulling them away of their own life satisfactions. What they fail to realize is that their lives are not meaningless, no matter how useless and alone one feels, but in reality they never are. Of course they’ll never find out if no one really tries to actually help them, and assisted suicide won’t make any improvement for sure. Either way, assisting a loved one to commit suicide is treacherous, especially if it’s a

In Jewish tradition, burials are to happen as soon as possible after the patient dies. Also, in respect to the body, autopsies are not permitted unless necessary (in cases where the autopsy may help save a life or is ordered by the Medical Examiner). Amputated limbs may also be requested to be available for burial.

If doctors told that person is on last stage of life than most of family members usually want available their selves to cleanse and prepare the body. when death occurs in a family report to eldest family member, spouse, or parents; open and public emoting expected but varies. Attitudes toward organ donation. Continues to be taboo to donate organs or blood; exceptions for immediate family needs (may hasten own death if donor); some religious restrictions .

In an ideal scenario, after a death, be it accidental or natural, the body would be immediately removed. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. When an unattended death or suicide occurs, the body may be left to decompose for days, weeks or even months. Throughout the process of natural decomposition, body tissues begin to break down, which over time can result

Since the patient is unable to provide the consent based on the information presented by the doctor, the informed consent will rely on the healthcare directive or next of kin. There is the possibility of the next of kin agreeing with the patient’s wishes, which can cause a delay in a decision. Many family members are unable to make the decision to take a patient off of the ventilator even after being declared brain dead. (Health, 2015)

When you are dead nothing is expected of you, your time is spent laying on your back and the brain completely shuts down. While being dead one will find their limbs floppy and uncooperative and their mouth will be hanging open at all times. Being dead is unappealing and smelly. Some dead people are beautiful and others look like monsters, some are dressed in sweat pants or suits and others are naked. Some indivuadls are in pieces and other are completely whole, all their bones remain attached. STIFF, a book by Mary Roach, presents the topic of cadavers, the use of them, how they can be beneficial and whether using cadavers is morally right.

There is a greater risk from the physicians diagnosing death over the objections of the family and the attending physician than not diagnosing death without having the medical staff agree.

It is then interred in a mass grave with others from the same village who have passed on until it is deemed there are a sufficient number of bodies to hold a cremation.

Too feeble to stand up himself, a grown man sits in the arms of hospice care day in and day out, just waiting to be picked up out of bed, given a little relief. All that crosses his mind is the thought of death. This man suffers through the pain of his condition everyday, until he sluggishly deteriorates. His body hangs on longer than his mind, until he dies exactly the opposite of how he wanted to, not of a sound mind. Death with Dignity states that 70% of people in the U.S. have joined the fight to legalize a practice in which people can chose to die at the end of their life in specific conditions. Voluntary assisted suicide should be legalized in Wisconsin because there are strict laws that will make sure that this process is done correctly,

According to the American Liver Foundation, a healthy liver cleans blood, fights infection processes food and stores energy. The liver is able to regenerate itself, but when it becomes too damaged or is prevented from regenerating, it will fail and no longer be able to keep able to keep one alive (2015). Despite its ability to regenerate, chronic liver disease and cirrhosis is the twelfth leading cause of death of death in the United States. My interest in further exploring liver related deaths is the due to the impact that liver disease has had on my family. My young cousin was born with a malignant tumor on her liver and spent the first several years of her life undergoing surgeries and chemotherapy. She survived the treatment and at the age of 4 was free of cancer. At the age of 24 she was told that her liver was beginning the process of failure and she would need to be put on the transplant liver for long-term survival. My grandmother died of cirrhosis of the liver and my father, after 3 years of treatment for melanoma, was diagnosed with liver failure. He had a procedure to prolong the useful life of his liver, but the damage to his liver will not allow his liver to regenerate and it will likely be liver failure which leads to his death.

Once prepared, the body would be moved to the atrium of the house and placed on a funeral couch or a lectus funebris, and surrounded by incense and flowers for mourners to visit and pay their

For the purposes of this essay the assumption will be that there is no after life or god. Eliminating the concept of god in a sense dissolves the issue of sinfulness and blameworthiness. Therefore a relativist stance will be adopted and the absolutist stance rejected. The issue of cowardice also should be addressed as arguably a soldier going to certain death is not a coward and few people would be able to harm him/herself. The taking of life can be considered under three categories, as an exercise in rational philosophical thought, as an action that has boundaries proscribed by the law, and lastly in a theological sense. It also is worthwhile and imperative to allude to the fact that suicide is only one form of extinguishing life, and