Death Can Bring People Together

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“Death radically alters our relationships with others. It can be seen either as the ultimate act of separation or the opportunity to rejoin others who have gone before us”(Kastenbaum, 2012, p.61). Death always changes our relationship with others it can be in a positive or negative way. For example; when a family member or close friend dies this situation tends to bring people together. On the other hand, death is not the right way to re-unite people; we should never wait until someone dies to share moments with our loved ones. Moreover, death can separate people on earth, but it also makes a reencounter between those who died and their loved ones in heaven. I have heard many people who say “when I died I want to be able to see my family …show more content…
I definitely agree with this statement since death can be defined as a problem because it ends our opportunity to achieve our goals. Also, death can be an ultimate solution since it can help people escape from problems. As I stated on the first paragraph this type of tragic event can bring people together, but at the same time it can cause many problems. For example; my aunt from my parental family always says “when my father dies, I do not want to see none crying at the funeral, if there were not able to visit him when he was alive”. From parental side, losing a love one will never bring people together, it will just cause more controversies between friends and family members. She will be the type of person that will make a big argument at a funeral home, and make people leave. Something that I been curious about it is why do we always wait until someone dies in our family to reunite? I feel that we need to show love to our people while there are alive and not wait until they are gone. This is a problem that I see all the time between my friends and family members. Can we just make time for the people we care for? A funeral home or a hospital should never be a place where people reunite. Why do we call our family member just to tell them that someone dies? Can we replace those types of call just to say hello, or to invite them to

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