Identifying The Missing Leg Case Study

When people mourn the dead they often tell stories as a way to keep the deceased present in their everyday lives. For instance, when Rat Kiley would tell stories about Curt Lemon, unsuspecting listeners would have a difficult time knowing that he was actually dead because of the amount of details Rat added to make Curt seem alive. “To listen to stories, as Rat Kiley told it, you’d never know Curt Lemon was dead” (O’Brien 227). The author uses detailed personal stories to talk about the dead so it seems like they have not actually passed away. When Tim O’Brien was talking about Ted Lavender, he felt like the only way to truly remember him was to tell elaborate stories about him. “We kept the dead alive

The power of the story has been very much a part of the lives of humans throughout time. The story is able to bring the past to the present and the dead to the living. The story can make the blind see. The story is able to make others feel for events in time that they have never experienced. The story has a profound effect on both the teller and the audience. As the audience is thought to be the beneficiary or the storytelling process, the teller is able to relive the times of old, or even teach a valuable lesson to his or her audience. Thus, allowing both parties to gain something intangible throughout this process. In “The Lives of the Dead,” O’Brien conveys the importance of storytelling and imagination by suggesting that the dead can be brought back to life in the minds of the people who hear it.

This caught my attention right away and hooked me in. Along with being a topic I was quite interested in (reference to last nonfiction book report), the first two sentences got me wondering. What could be told from a murdered person’s body? I already had a lot of background information from research and watching shows on mystery and homicide but this question led to a million answers. Some answers were cause of death, manner of death. time of death, weapon used, etc, all of which were related because this was sparked from the thought of a dead person and my ideas. From this, I read on to determine what could be told from an expert’s point of view.

Many authors use storytelling as a vehicle to convey the immortality of past selves and those who have passed to not only in their piece of literature but in their life as an author. In Tim O’Brien’s work of fiction The Things They Carried, through his final chapter “The Lives of the Dead,” O 'Brien conveys that writing is a matter of survival since, the powers of storytelling can ensure the immortality of all those who were significant in his life. Through their immortality, O’Brien has the ability to save himself with a simple story. Through snippets of main plot event of other chapters, O’Brien speaks to the fact the dead have not actually left; they are gone physically, but not spiritually or emotionally. They live on in memories as Linda lives on in the memories of O’Brien and as many of his war buddies live on through his stories. He can revive them and bring them back to the world through his writings and through these emotions or events he experienced with them and with their deaths can make them immortal. Through the reminiscent stories of Linda and O’Brien’s war companions and himself, O’Brien conveys that storytelling allows people to reanimate others who have died and past selves to create an immortality of humans.

This is an attempt to unravel the tangle by an objective and empirical examination of information from crime scene and post mortem examination of the victims. Pre-digested information such as speculative newspaper reports, and statements from witnesses other than those called in a professional capacity have been avoided since theirs is largely subjective testimony that confounds more than it informs.

Drawing upon the ability of fiction to preserve life against death, O 'Brien says that, during wartime, that they were able to "[keep] the dead alive with stories" (239). To the living, stories were a way to keep the memory of the dead alive, but to the dead, it was the simple act of remembering that kept them alive: "That 's what a story does. The bodies are animated. You make the dead talk" (232). This theme of preservation is exemplified by story of Linda, in which O 'Brien uses the power of storytelling and memory to keep people alive: "Stories can save us. I 'm forty-three years old, and a writer now, and even still, right here, I keep dreaming Linda alive...They 're all dead. But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the world." (225).

The passage from the story of The Lives Of The Dead, gives O'Brien's views on storytelling and how he pushes fiction within his short novel. Furthermore, this passage starting from the bottom of page 230 going to 231, allows the reader to not only get a general feel as to what O’Brien means when he refers to storytelling, but also how he feels when he recalls his memories and how he writes them on paper. To start off, the passage begins with O’Brien’s views on storytelling stating that “you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you” (O’Brien pg 230). This statement very much shows how O’Brien pushes fiction, even though he does not formally state it. He mentions dreaming and how your story is based on your

With conflicting research and hardly valid data, to say that phantom limb syndrome is solely caused based on psychogenic mechanism of the patient is inaccurate. More recent research has strongly suggested peripheral mechanism to also be a factor in phantom limb syndrome. Once amputation of a limb or part of a limb is performed, a neuroma is created. Neuromas result from a trauma to the nerve and are typically formed on the site of an inquired sensory nerve, forming a knot in the area. The knot is mainly composed of axons that can no longer reconnect to the rest of the nerve cells due to amputation . These neuromas are the site where increased excitability due to an increased accumulation of molecules (recent research, scientist are not quite

This summary for the final paper will discuss phantom limb pain, including the psychological and physiological causes, effects and the treatment options for phantom limb pain. When a limb is lost whether to traumatic amputation, disease, surgical amputation, or a congenital defect the amputee may experience sensations that the affected limb is still present. Some of the most common sensations that an amputee can experience are tingling, throbbing, piercing, pins and needles, resulting in what is perceived as pain in the missing limb. The exact causes of the phantom limb pain that many amputees experience is still relatively unknown, however, there are three main theories that are seek to explain the sensation of pain in the missing limb/limbs.

Phantom limb pain (PLP) affects many individuals who have had a limb amputated. Individuals can experience pain in the residual limb, phantom sensations, and phantom limb pain. Pain in the residual limb is defined as pain at the site of an extremity amputation. This means the individual feels pain just above or at the location of the amputation (Hill, 1999). This type of pain is most common in the early post-amputation phase. Phantom sensations are defined as any sensation of the missing limb except pain. Phantom sensation is seen in almost all amputees (Hill, 1999). Phantom limb pain is defined as painful sensations referred to the absent limb (Hill, 1999). In this review of literature the following will be addressed; the triggers of phantom limb pain, the types of treatment for phantom limb pain, and a summary of findings.

Bethany Hamilton clearly shows to be resilient for many reasons. She recovered from a shark very difficult situation fast because of her determination! Bethan is more confident now than she has ever been because she sees herself the same as she was before the attack, which also humbled her and made her determination even stronger to fulfill her dream! She is a role model to many!

Dead people can not tell stories. But their bodies and past sure can! So I am here to explain why bodies can tell stories. Basically, people’s bodies explain things that no other human can. Like how bodies decompose and how long they last underground.

I do too believe that the dead can tell tales. Because Mr. Bass shows it through his passion, and work of investigating situations like this. He has a special way of handling situations like this, stated by Mr. Bass. An example, is his latest case in New Mexico, where a 33 year old man Madison Rutherford was on a business trip, and disappeared while supposedly on a drive. Everyone thought that he had went up in flames, because the car burst into flames, so everyone said. And Bass was called to the scene right away, which he was happy to help with. And he had a questionnaire type of process, that he says is very important when finding more out about the victim. Especially if they don’t find much about the victim, or there is no remains or evidence.

The dead can tell tales even when they are dead because their bones/remains tell stories about them, the way they were and when they were alive and stuff like that. The bones of some remains can tell a lot of things. One of the things that a skeleton can inform people of is when and how the person died. The bones leave evidence that tell if the person was murdered or however they died based on the conditions of their bones now. They can also tell when they died by the condition of their bones. The skeleton can also let us know how old that person was when he or she died. A couple of signs that let a person know how hold someone was by looking at their remains is by looking at their teeth. The teeth let the forensic anthropologist know is the

     The storyteller goes to great lengths to conceal the murder. First, he dismembers the body, collecting the blood in the bathtub so that there would be no blood stains anywhere. He then buries the body parts under the planks on the floorboards in such a way that "no human eye--not even his--could have detected anything wrong." The storyteller says this