Rigor Mortis Essay

After reading, The Embalming of Mr. Jones by Jessica Mitford, I was in shock about the whole process that happens hour after death. Previously, when I heard about embalming I thought they basically just cleaned the body up and dressed them up for the casket showing, but now that I know what actually happens I’m a little grossed out. The body shouldn’t be changed so much because you want to see them as you last remember not reconstructed due to the embalming. While the bodies are deceased, I can't help but wonder if they are feeling all of this happening. I feel bad for Mr. Jones and others who have been through the process. I can’t even imagine what it is like for the embalmer, and how they can go through with it.

Every individual experiences the act of death, and most persons experience the death of someone they know of. Whether family, kin, or someone infamous, the living deal with the process of dying. Anthropology seeks to understand the universal process of death ritual and how different cultures deal with death differently. An anthropologist can extract social values of a given culture, past or present, from how death ceremony is practiced. Such values could be regarding political hierarchy or an individual’s status in a society, and about a culture’s spiritual or religious faith. By exploring death ceremony in ancient Egypt, contemporary Hindu death practice in India, and current North American funerary rites, it can be illustrated that

After reading Stiff, it was surprising to discover that there are so many different ways that cadavers can be used. For example, cadavers are used to see the different stages of decomposition, as test dummies, as compost, and as art. Until I read this book, I thought that you were simply buried or cremated when you die. Further, I

Dead?" AlterNet. In this article, Frankie Colmane looks into how dead bodies are treated in the United State even after Mitford's expose of the funeral industry was published. The article takes both a philosophical and scientific issue with the procedure of embalming sighting proven negative effects to human beings and the environment. Colmane shows that even though people are aware of the malfeasance and misappropriations of the funeral industry following pieces like Mitford's, very little has changed. Therefore problems that have been discussed in earlier works should not be forgotten. Rather they should be continually brought up until the issue is solved. During the 1800s, embalming became common practice because the dead family member would lie in state within the home for a period of days or weeks until it would be buried (Colmane 2010). The article shows the duplicity such as when "funeral directors were arguing forcefully against charges that their mediation between the living and the dead translated into social obstruction that barred the stricken from facing death with maturity, realism, and honest" (page 2). This article will be used to illustrate that things have not changed with funereal practices despite the publication of Mitford's essay.

It takes approximately twelve hours for the rigor mortis to become fully pronounced. It then lasts for approximately twelve hours and then takes up to another twelve hours for the muscles to lose their firmness (Young & Ortmeier, 2011). While the body is transitioning through rigor mortis, other changes are simultaneously occurring.

Death has always been and will be a topic that just a few want to talk, but since time immemorial man has worshiped their dead, and this is reflected in the various rituals and forms of burial. The anguish of death has been considered the deepest anguish of man. Death is the inevitable companion of life, is the final stage. It can occur at any age, suddenly or after a long illness. Despite knowing that someday we will have to die the death of a loved one is a terrible fact, very difficult to accept, that affects everyone around the deceased person. When the link with the deceased breaks, the suffering is so great, that they put into question the fundamentals of being, of human existence and our deepest beliefs, affecting significantly the basic family and social relationships.

A mysterious and strange malady arrives in the small American town of Abida which can be found on an island off the coast of the New England region. The island is somewhat isolated, most political matters are handled locally between it's people, this is due to the islands history. The people of Abida are the final result of successful human amalgamation between slave and owner with many of which who still holds on to their eccentric ancestral beliefs that revolve around "the old ways". This causes many to rarely visit or leave the island and as a consequence Abida is flung into a realm of enigma lying beyond the fringes of the New Englander's conscience. Without the aid of the mainland however, the disease, which is referred to locally as "scourge" takes large sections of

Internal Briefing Report for the Death of Sharon Jane Miller Case Summary As a medico-legal investigator, I am tasked to prepare an internal final case briefing report as regards the death of Sharon Jane Miller. The final case briefing report is intended to help the Chief Medical Examiner (ME) in determining the cause of the victim's death. As such, this final case briefing will be attached to the case and the autopsy reports for the ME's perusal. As mentioned above, the case question is about the death of Sharon Jane Miller, who was born on October 7, 1987.

According to (Liming & Dickenson 2011., p.3) “thanatology is the study of dying, death, and bereavement.” I believe that the study of death will be a topic to be discussed and forever researched. There are many different aspects of death that I believe people can study, rather it be cultural believes, medically researching different processes of death, or even just what your own personal discovery of what death exactly is or what happens after death. No one can interview the dead. No one can find out if death is peaceful, or if there is life after death, or what death feels like. So for this topic of defining thanatology I wanted to look at the studies of peoples near death experiences, interviews from people who are experiencing death, the different cultures behind viewing death, and lastly the communication skills needed for health care professionals to develop in order to discuss death and dying amongst the patient and their family

In this passage from Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward uses Esch’s and Manny’s encounter to reveal the way Esch feels towards Manny, signifying a one-sided emotional attachment. The selected passage reveals one of the main characters, Esch, as being taken advantage of due to her feelings for Manny. Manny and Esch have been intimate before, however, the two’s views on the encounters were dissimilar. Esch talks about her past encounters and compares them to Manny when she says, “The girly heart that, before Manny, I’d let boys have because they wanted it, and not because I wanted to give it” (Ward). When the author uses this to describe the way Esch feels about Manny and how she sees him differently than the rest of her past. Although Ward provides a detailed description of the emotional attachment Esch feels towards Manny, there is a repudiation of feelings presented as well such as when Esch claims that Manny wouldn’t touch her, “but his hips would” (Ward).

Hello felt weakest to pathos becuase it's the last thing that comes up to a person mind. When people are asked ot trying to ask they mostly use hello becuase it feels safe word to use. If the person say hey or hi it sound impolite. Even if they're asked they feel first, then think about, finally judge the person. The person react to feel since the heart then body react first.

The young Fortnatious lived in a town called Tilted Towers. The town is filled with different types of loot that everyone wants. However, he also lived on an island with a total of 100 people. The island was pretty big, it had 18 different locations and many more side locations.

Whether it’s administering pain medication or allowing the parent to hold them in between procedures, it is the nurse’s job to determine the actual stressor.

The defendants maintained that the decedent’s symptoms were consistent with allergies; however, it is important to note that the decedent’s symptoms were reoccurring and had not responded to the initial prescribed treatments, thus prompting the provider to prescribe an additional course of antibiotic therapy as well as antihistamines and nasal sprays over the course of 9 months. Taking this into account, the non-response to therapy should have alerted the physician and the nurse practitioner that additional diagnostic testing should have occurred, such as sinus x-rays, a CT scan or MRI, which would have given the providers additional data. According to Michon (n.d.), a failed diagnosis or delay in diagnosing is not in of itself negligence;

During the times of the Ancient Romans, Epicureans and Stoics it was understood that death and the disposal of the body were vitally important to all beliefs, these views on death also display the contrasting portrayals of each ideology as to how the deceased were handled and the influential theories revolving around death.