How Happiness Change With Age

That’s the thing about death: it sneaks up and robs a person of their life, taking away all of their happiness. People indulge themselves in the idea of fearing death rather than facing it. Death is an unknown territory where no survivors have ever came back to share their experience. The US Army Private, Roy Scranton’s article “Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene” shines hope where he explains how fear can be conquered if the idea of dying is accepted. It is fear that paralyzes people from moving toward the idea of death. If people started to embrace the present, they will understand the inevitability of death and start discrediting fear.

These people will develop wisdom, even while facing death. Individuals who have not successfully finished this stage will feel much regret over a squandered life and will encounter numerous regrets. A person who feels this way will feel bitter and anguish (Cherry, 2015). According to Erik Erikson, “people who achieved positive outcomes to earlier life crises-for example, generativity rather than stagnation in middle adulthood-would be more likely to obtain ego integrity than despair in later adulthood” (Rathus, 2013). Next, body transcendence and geotranscendence is a stage in later adulthood years in which an individual must overcome the aging process and identify themselves by what his or her body is capable of doing (Peck,1968). Affect optimization in life review occurs when an individual is able to view life in a positive manner. People who successfully complete this stage are able to maintain a cheerful attitude about life, despite experiencing deteriorating health, seeing many loved ones die, and a limited amount

As much as we look for meaning in our lives, we also try to understand the things we can’t understand such as mortality and the future. Since the end of the 20th century, social norms have started to change and life expectancy increasing. Everyone was very involved with their R/S and their futures were laid out for us based on gender and income. However with social norms continuously changing this is no longer so for many people and things such as

Death is everywhere and cannot be stopped. Every day, millions of people around the world die, whether it is from sickness, old age, suicide or murder. “The Fear of Dying” by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, and “The Right to Die” by Norman Cousins, are two articles that discuss death, with respect to embracing it. Both articles support the idea of free will, how society views and reacts to death, and the acceptance of death.

I feel Dr Cornell West expressed when saying that death gives rise to desire, was that each individual will ultimately know that there is a time when they will die but the desires in life, success, marriage will give us a drive to live. We as humans, be faced with the opportunity of a sure and real death,utilize the time and space. Ethics, morals and socialism dictates what we do and who we are in that time.

In the West, life and death is a very sensitive topic. So many people are obsessed with living as long as they can and trying to put off what will come regardless. Dr. Randy Pausch presented to the world a different view on death. He came out with the bold attitude towards death based on the idea that anyone can always have fun and enjoy life despite the fact that there is a definite ending. Pausch was able to persuade the four hundred some-odd people in the hall to shift their focus away from death and more towards the childhood dreams of both themselves and others. He is able to present a solid argument that it is certainly possible to lead a life full of happiness and fulfillment as long as one is focused on bettering the lives of those around them.

Everyone is born to eventually die; that is the reality of life. Death is not the enemy; death is the eventual consequence of being born. Knowing how to live a full life despite the amount of time given is the enemy. Gawande explains a hypothesis psychologist Laura Carstensen had: “how we seek to spend our time may depend on how much time we perceive to have” (97). Nobody knows how much time one has until faced with life altering situations. Laura Carstensen had a near death experience, which prompted her to evaluate her life and the elder roommates in her recovery room. By doing so she went on to pursuit a career in psychology eventually coming up with her hypothesis and testing

saying and feel it to be true. One such woman, author Elisabeth, wrote “On the fear of death,” published in 1969 in the the Norton Reader, and she argues on how death make as feel and the customs which has change because of our sciences and technology toward the end of the article. After l lost my grandmother to death, I have been curious to know, if there’s really life after death? We live life every day to improve our future. It is suggested for us to embrace death. We must realize the opportunity we are given by being alive now so we become less exposed and less vulnerable for a down fall. It normal if we have our fears; however, it’s our decision to bring death on with open arms or just abscond ourselves from the thought of it. Why try this battle we ultimately have no control over? Rather we should try to accomplish something important before our death and that’s what I care about now. I realized a lot of people are on their dying beds regretting what they did with their lives and have no way of going back and changing it. I want to live a life I won’t regret 60years to come. Better child care and education has affected a low morbidity and mortality among children. The number of old people is on the rise, and with this fact come the number of people with malignancies and chronic diseases associated more with old (Kubler-Rose 1).The many diseases that have been taking toll among the young has been conquered. I want to live an exciting life full of adventures and accomplishments as much as I can. Some adventures could be very scary and challenging but I would still love to try them before dying, and travel around the world to explore and learn new cultures.

Everyone knows that they are going to die eventually, but it’s what people do in between the time they open their eyes and when they close them that__________? Matters? Is important?. Life is full of trials; try and fail. People find things they love to do and they find things they don’t. When they find it their purpose, they master it. The pleasure of working towards fulfilling a purpose That pleasure is happiness and that is what life is for. To be happy, not in an immoral way but by doing what we love. That's what real happiness is. Does a person have to know they will die before they can live your life to the fullest? People “die” emotionally or mentally everyday .T and

“Since the beginning of time (or close),” Edmundson, an English professor at Virginia University notes, “men and women have sought immortality. They have looked to live as the gods do: eternally and in bliss.” People are living longer than ever before, but it’s proven to not be enough. Annually, millions of people buy supplements promising longevity, but whether it’s the fear of death or simply a diet plan, people are doubling and even tripling the ages of those who lived during the 19th century. One primary cause of the trend stems from the kryptonite of every human being: fear. Although fear is in every aspect of life, the quest for longevity is prolonged by medical advancements, lifestyle changes, and sex.

According to Erikson stages of human development, late adulthood stage is between the ages 65 to death (Erikson, 1982). This stage is ego integrity versus despair involves individual to look back over one’s life and feel a sense of contentment and satisfaction (Erikson, 1982). Success at this stage leads to feeling of wisdom and failure to achieve results in bitterness, regret, and despair. This negative resolution manifests itself as a fear of death, a sense that life is too- short, and depression (Erikson, 1982).

(CITE tmt) Terror management underlies the conflict human’s face due to their desire to live and the terror and anxiety they feel due to their knowledge of the certainty of death. They combat the terror of death by erecting “defences against death” (CITE denial of death ). Terror management theory suggests that people learn to alleviate their fear of death by ‘finding meaning in life and value in themselves” (CITE kindle).

In reality everyone is born to die, but for some it’s sooner than later. Nobody in the world can stop or hide from it. Dying is one of the things that no wealthy or poor man can get away from. A rich person does not have enough money in the world to buy more time of living. Death does not just happen to the less fortunate it happens to everyone; it is thing everyone has in common. Most of Edgar Allan Poe’s stories are revolved around death and have a message behind the madness. The hidden messages in Poe’s allegory “ The Masque of the Red Death” is as you get older your world becomes darker and darker over time.

Once an adult reaches retirement, they begin to slow down, if they have not already, and reflect upon a long life lived. They are at the mercy of many decades worth of memories, some good and some bad. The elder will feel a sense of wellbeing if they are satisfied with their life. This satisfaction roots itself in accomplishment. Humans usually want to undertake many things in their lives. Some are able to attain these and others are not. Those that do achieve their goals are filled with a sense of gratification. Arlene Handler says that Erikson calls this “integrity” (The Developmental Stages of Erik Erikson, 2002 (revised 2009)). This also allows for a quiet acceptance of death. People who accept death as inevitable do so with grace and ease. They look at their life and see an adventure with hills and valleys, but valleys that they were able to climb out of with might and determination. Erikson thought this to be remarkable and was amazed by elderly people’s resiliency. He found that the strength at this stage was wisdom and that all the experiences

The age an individual feels is related to changes in characteristic ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving over time. As people aged, they become more mature and they approach thing differently and that in a way has effects their personality either positively or negatively. The aim of the study was to find out if age difference has anything to do with personality change.