Jack London Grief

Sometimes when your body temperature drops below 37 hypothermia can occur, which is most commonly due to cold weather. When your body temperature rises above 37 it could be due to the environment which is called hyperthermia. If your temperature rises above the normal body temperature and which is not due to the environment it could be caused by an internal infection or fever, this is called pyrexia.

Moreover, how to explain the fact that during the clinical death many people feel like the soul is leaving the body, and they may have a look at themselves from the another side, or see the dead relatives, or see the wonderful and pleasant light. Even though this process cannot be clearly explained by medicine, with Graves’ explanation of the soul whereabouts these visions are impossible.

The first stage of grief is as the sharks say in Finding Nemo, “DENIAL.” In the book, Conor’s grandma told him that his mother’s condition would not get better with one of the new treatments. He denied it by saying, “The treatments are making her better...”(42). Even though the treatments had not worked, Conor refused to believe that the treatments will not work because he needs his mother to get better. The American Psychological Association says that most people deny the problem because it is easier to distance oneself from friends or family. Once a person isolates from those who can help, it can lead to

The grieving that individuals experience with death is unique, but the main stages are universal across cultures (Axelrod, 2017). There are five stages of grief. Nicolas Wolterstorff’s story, Lament for a Son, addresses these five stages as he tries to find joy after the loss of his son. The meaning and significance of death in light of the Christian narrative is also addressed in the story. Having a hope of the resurrection can help comfort individuals in situations similar to Wolterstorff (Wolterstorff, 1978).

Death is one of the most avoided topics because of the finality that comes with it and the fear of the unknown after death. However, there are quite a number of authors such as AtulGawande, Elisabeth Kubler-ross and Ira Byock who have attempted to go ahead and deal with death as a topic and other connected topics.Each of these authors have delved into one of the most revered topics that is death including related topics that come with it such as the dying process itself. Ira Byock’s Dying well: Peace and possibilities at the end of life is a book that looks at the moment prior to death when an individual is terminally sick and is at the point of death. A

By biological logic, we human beings will face death sooner or later in our life and death has its very own ways to approach us - a sudden deadly strike, a critical sickness, a tragic accident, a prolonged endurance of brutal treatment, or just an aging biological end. To deal with the prospect of death come different passive or active reactions; some may be scared and anxious to see death, some try to run away from it, and some by their own choice make death come faster. But Viktor Frankl, through his work Man’s Search for Meaning, and Bryan Doyle; in his essay “His Last Game” show us choices to confront the death, bring it to our deepest feelings, meaningful satisfaction. To me, the spirit of the prisoners at deadly concentration camps, Frankl’s Logotherapy theory of “. . . striving to find a meaning in one’s life is the primary motivational force in man.” (99), as well as the calmness of Doyle’s brother on his last ride, like an awaken bell, remind us of how precious life is, how we should find the significance in every act of living, determine to live a meaningful life at any circumstances; hence, when death comes, we can accept it without anxiety nor regrets.

The experiences one goes through in life can be hard for another to understand if they have never been through a similar experience. A challenge arises for writers to try to comprehend what the deceased experienced in life, and then to convey it so their readers can understand it as well. Even if immense description is provided, a reader might still not be able to imagine what a certain experience is like. For example, Matt Shepard was “viciously and repeatedly [beaten] with a .357 Magnum” (Loffreda 368). One can try and imagine how painful that would be, but unless it happens to the reader, he cannot know what it is like. Chris McCandless had to make his own fire, catch his food, sleep in the freezing cold, and starve. Most Americans have never had to gather their own wood and build a fire from scratch lighting it with a single match; they are used to just turning on the gas to their fireplace

Losing someone is something that everyone will experience. Whether that is someone that is close to you or a friend of a friend. Death is something I have been associated with on a few occasions, and when I was reading the end of chapter five. I could feel my stomach drop and see the goose bumps form across my skin. The author began

In Hills like white elephants we identify six stages of human grief regarding to dying, and loss: denial; isolation; anger; bargaining; depression and finally acceptance. Hemingway apparently innate understanding and dramatization, of these stages of grief.

The fiction novella, The Death of Ivan Ilych, by Leo Tolstoy reminded me of what death trends were like back in the 1900's, although this short novel was written in 1886. Ivan Ilych died in his very own home and his funeral also took place at his home, whereas today, most people die in hospitals or in hospice. Leo Tolstoy's purpose of writing this novella was to introduce the connection between the meaning of life and death. The Death of Ivan Ilych was written so that the reader could understand each character's point of view. The intended audience are for those who are interested in learning about death education.

The stages of death are reached by some who are dying. Sense these are stages that means there must be a factor in them that is important. Time plays a big role in stages of life and death, and since time is the determining factor in the end a stage could last until death hens the five stages of death. These five stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and finally acceptance. The hardest stage of death to concur is the stage of accepting your own death.

Death alone is already a confusing subject, which does not become easier to talk about the older we get. But Theodore Finch fantasizes about dying every time he is “awake.” Niven starts the story with Finch

In his situation, he was not grateful for being alive; it was not good enough for him. For instance, the protagonist did not help the dog survive with him when they approached a frozen creek he was not sure if the ice was frozen enough to walk across the dog did not want to go across but he forced the dog to go across sacrificing the dog’s safety for his own (London 81). Secondly, the protagonist knew if he survived he would lose fingers and toes, leaving him a bit incapacitated, but assuming his ‘boys’ would take care of him, showing that he was not trying to survive for anyone else but himself (London 89). The last example of the protagonist not showing the idea of count your blessings (Gonzales 97), is when he tried to kill the dog thus losing the dogs trust and not being able to use its natural instinct to his advantage an could have thought of an idea to build an igloo and shared each other’s body heat (London 88-89). These actions all together assisted on ending the protagonist’s life.

As the old saying goes, in this world nothing can be said to be sure, except death and taxes. Even everyone knows their life must have an end, but most of them still fear the death. In the short stories, A Drowning by Mark Ferguson and Red Bean Ice by Nancy Lee, authors have demonstrated the reaction and feeling of people to death. In these two stories, the characters are unlike the other person when death comes. They are both calm facing to death, and they are all insisting their hope. However, the reaction of people around them for their death is different.