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Death
UNIT 1 SEMINAR
The first time I ended a serious relationship, I felt a lot of regret about it in the days after the breakup. I thought that I had hurt the other person (we had been together for a few years) and I worried that I had made the wrong decision. I kept thinking about all the different ways in which perhaps it could have worked out. I had to remind myself that I had very good reasons for ending the relationship and that my emotions were only telling one side of the story.
I believe this situation interrelates with the concept of death anxiety with respect to what Barnett, Anderson and Marsden (2018) showed in their study of the relationship between pessimism and death anxiety. They found that optimistic or pessimistic attitudes will change the extent to which one suffers from death anxiety. Pessimism tends to be more associated with high degrees of death anxiety than optimistic attitudes (Barnett et al., 2018). In my experience, I think that my pessimistic attitude towards my relationship was what really caused me to feel so much anxiety about it. I was never that optimistic about it. But I can see how optimism would make a difference in how one views a situation or transition—whether it is a breakup or something like dying.
UNIT 2 SEMINAR
A great war...
An attack like the one suffered at Pearl Harbor or a battle like the one at Verdun where so many young men lost their lives or the bombing of Hiroshima in Japan—these are events that could easily stand out as being instances in which Death is seen as the Great Leveler.
As a force that unites and separates, death has also been seen—especially following tragedies like 9/11. Because so many people felt that horrific, tragic moment even if they were not directly impacted by it, they nonetheless were able to put themselves in the shoes of those who were there and who did experience that tragedy. As Hoyer (2018) notes, some optimism can thus be pulled out of grim instances like this because people begin to feel like they are united in a common struggle.
In contrast, the media’s treatment of casualties in recent wars has served to separate us from death by depersonalizing the tragedies suffered by people in the Middle East. Their lives are not depicted as being human or as human lives lost as being meaningful to us. The media portrays so many people over there as just being enemies of America and people like Assad are portrayed as brutal dictators. Yet there is of…
While various types of medical/religious practice had long attempted to prolong life, the emphasis of these efforts beginning during this period was placed on forestalling death. Views of Death in the Modern Era The trends that began in the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods continued into the modern era, and though the increased rationalism and emphasis on the scientific method and imperial fact served society well in many ways, this has not
The last days of the dying person should be spent in the most peaceful manner possible. Dying in one's home is also preferred in our culture because it gives the dying person a sense of warmth and familial bond. Reflecting on this, I believe that dying in one's home is also a sign that the eventual death of a family member has already been accepted by the family. It gives
Significantly, the authors promote an accepting and acknowledging attitude towards the negative aspects of aging, as well as an understanding that it does not have to be a solely negative experience. It provides practical principles for the ability to successfully cope with the negative processes by means of a positive focus and attitude. What I like most about the book is its positive consideration of what it could mean to
Death and Dying Death is a pretty extreme event in someone's life; one that everyone must endure. We all know it is coming one day, but most of us take it for granted as we go about our daily lives. However, once in a while a person will be a part of another's death and get to experience the process from a close perspective. I have a personal experience regarding death
Death Linda Wertheimer and Robert Siegel extensively interviewed Helen Payne, an 81-year-old woman dying of leukemia, and family members, regarding the process of coping with terminal illness in a loved one. They included observations from Payne's oncologist and hospice nurse as well. Their interview shows a wide range of logical and emotional responses exhibited by family members as Payne's illness progressed, and demonstrated just how complex our reaction to such illness
" (Willmott 2000) in other words, the reality of death is removed to the edges of culture and society; which means that the significance and reality of death is in effect 'anesthetized' by institutions such as the medicine and science. As Giddens states, death is avoided or excluded from common social life and from "…fundamental existential issues which raise central moral dilemmas for human beings." (Giddens 156) This suggests that the