Loss Oriented Stressors

Therefore, there cannot be an anthropological study of death, but only of behavior toward death as it affects those who survive. It must be a study of “how others die”; examining the reactions of survivors and interpreting these reactions through ceremonies, ritual practices, ideological rationalizations- in short, as “folklore” (Robben, 52). Death-related behavior will then be placed at a safe distance from the core of one’s own society. Anthropologists also see mourning as a transitional period for the survivors. However, mourning requirements are based on degrees of kinship and are systematized by each people according to their special way of calculating that kinship (Robben, 214). During mourning, social life is suspended for all those affected by it, and the length of the period increases with the closeness of social ties to the deceased, and with a higher social standing of the death person. For example, if the dead man was a chief, the suspension affects the entire

Death anxiety is a multifaceted nervousness that can include fear of the process of dying, the death in itself, and what happens after death (Zilberfein and Hurwitz, 2004). Yalom (2002) writes that the fear of death haunts each individual throughout life and that many people build denial-based defense mechanisms in order to cope with an ever-present awareness of death. The process of dying is both known and unknown, and nowhere is death anxiety more apparent than in patients suffering from terminal illness. According to Zilberfein and Hurwitz (2004), fear in patients suffering from fatal diseases can cause: (1) dependency, (2) increased chronic pain, (3) a loss of sense of control, and (4) significant attention paid to the question of what “lies ahead”. Along similar lines, Adelbratt and Strang (2000) conducted a study exploring how patients and their next-of-kin experience death anxiety. They found that thoughts central to this nervousness include fear related to the loss of autonomy and unknown

Death has interested humans since the origins of humanity. It has spawned copious different coping mechanisms to help us come to terms with our own mortality. Anthropologists claim this contributed to the creation of religion and by extension, the use of specific, strict burial rituals across different cultures around the world. These rituals are comforting in the face of the darkest philosophical questions ever posed. On a more individual scale, coping mechanisms vary drastically between people. Edgar Allan Poe is known for the questionable coping mechanisms he used throughout his life. He suffered many tragedies and expressed his pain through alcohol abuse, gambling, and most importantly, his disturbing writings. Poe is particularly known

Death leaves a heartache that no one can fix. It has been like this pretty much since the beginning of time. There are obviously different types of dying, like suicide or murder for example, and also different deaths in general. Death of a friend, family member or a king or soldier as well. There are some similarities dealing with death in today’s world and earlier times.

Death is perhaps the most difficult aspect of life humans are forced to deal with. In order to help us cope, we have implemented the grieving process--a series of events with the purpose of making death easier to deal with--into our lives. Not everyone handles death in the same fashion, and each culture has rituals characteristic to itself that may differ greatly from another culture's rituals. Christianity and Buddhism are two religions that have completely different grieving processes, and in a conversation with Ms. Sit-Sen Wong, a Buddhist from Malaysia, this idea was confirmed as a fact. Through life, Buddhists constantly prepare for death and the afterlife,

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

For many of us death is a thought, a topic that brings up fear and often avoidance. In yet, death is something that each one of us will face during our lives. Even the people that surround us and the people we love will face death also. Death is a part of our everyday lives and the more consciously that we explore it for most people the better that experience become and the less fear that there is surrounding it. Death helps us to define more fully how we want to live and as we learn about death in our own thoughts and feeling about it. It often helps shape how each of us lives today and the choices that we made of our own dying. Throughout this paper, we will discuss how death and dying occur, how it affects Religion and Belief,

Death happens to everyone in many different ways. Death is a part of life; you can't have one without the other. Awareness of the many ways humans encounter and cope with death can be beneficial for professionals involved in handling situations with the dying or bereaved. I think it's important to understand other cultures and traditions with the burial and bereavement process. Proper education on the subject can possibly help us to be more empathetic towards those grieving and possibly the ability to put ourselves in another’s

Death has been a motivating factor of human society since society existed. Whether humans simply fear death or that they don’t understand the reality of death, humans have always had a very notable and sensitive curiosity about death. This goes back to simple human nature, which is to fear what one does not understand, as well as to try to understand it to make the idea less daunting. The latter is particularly resolved via the use of religion in culture. As culture and society has evolved over the course of human development, the current attitude towards death has changed. Even if one believes there is an afterlife, one today understands they have a finite amount of time to spend on earth. This limited time can be spent however the person

I was introduced to deaths indiscriminate nature as a very young child. Losing many close family members, countless friends along the way, and life I created, that I carried within my own body. The seemingly, random, callousness of this one word, broke me. It wasn’t until I found myself wandering along this “path”, that I would find a glimpse, into how to begin to make peace with or come to have a better understanding of death.

Our bodies could well be described as our own worst enemies, capable of surrounding the greatest aspirations through earthly physical brittleness; cutting short great lives prematurely. Some causes of death are particularly common and constant efforts are being maintained to fight their destructive effects. However, other deaths occur unexpectedly and are frequently being questioned in why they took place. Attitudes towards death change over a life period of the person. When a baby is born he or she does not understand what death means. The concept of death has to be developed to understand death and have an attitude concerning it. When younger people start understanding death they try to disagree with it and they believe that they can

Thesis: Death has a unique perception in every society. Most societies perceive death as the taker of life in humans and hence it’s treated with fear since it’s understood to be cruel as well as unforgiving. I personally view death in the same way since it takes all including our loved ones and nothing can stop it from the fact that it’s inevitable. It brings grieve, pain, sorrow etc. as well as casting dark shadows in peoples’ lives.

Philosophers have been studying the concept of death for decades to try and “learn how to die.” There are many different approaches one could take to analyze the ideal of learning to die, and it requires a multifaceted approach. Although the concept of dying will be individualized and subjective, there are several themes that we see evident in post modernized views of death and dying. After studying Plato (2002) and Dastur (2012), we can gain a better understanding of how postmodernity has affected the philosophical view of death, dying and bereavement.

There is nothing miserable than seeing someone struggling end of life. It will be a sorrowful event where all family members, relatives, friends and neighbors will miss someone they loved, worked and spend most of the time with him or her. If dying person has chronic illness and has suffer a lot, it could be easier to deal with and family members and relatives might have aspect and might have seen declining stages so they may be prepared to face it. But sudden death of someone due to motor vehicle accident or heart attack could be much painful and intense feeling of grief over time. Grieving, funeral process and rituals after funeral is different in different cultures and religions. Some culture considers it’s the end of life where as other culture considers that the soul has transform to another being. Tibetan culture and religion has similar thought as Elisabeth Kubler-Rose where she said, “I have told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me death is a graduation” . Death, the process of dying, perception and response to death is highly individualized. The experience of dying process for individual varies from one another as per the type of illness they have. The person having chronic illness experiences different fear of death than a person die in air- clash or motor vehicle accident. Caring for dying person also depends on the religion and culture (Concept Advisory Panel, 2015). Each religion or culture

This fear of death can actually be traced back to ancestral roots. Davis (2009) emphasises that it was not the fear of dying (or the fear of ceasing to exist) itself that troubled these ancestors, but rather the implications pertaining to death such as the pain usually involved and the worry of the future of one’s tribe. It is interesting to note, then, the modern man’s greatest fears surrounding death. Abdel-Khalek’s (2002) empirical study found that, aside from the contemporary construct of religion, the highest scoring factor which participants nominated as the reasoning behind the fear was indeed “parting from [their] relatives and beloved” (p. 675), followed closely by “acute pains associated with dying” (p. 675). The similarities between the fears of ancestors and modern man relating to death suggest an embedded trait. From this example, it is argued that fear is an inherited, genetic tendency which has persisted through countless generations of evolution.