Reaction To Death Essay

Not Every Reaction to Death is The Same Death is an occurrence that everyone will experience or already has experienced in some type of way. Death is inevitable and everyone will somehow encounter it at some point in their life; however, how someone reacts to death is not as predictable. Through experience, I have felt and seen the way people have reacted when it comes to dealing with death. The way most people react to a death is mainly based off of the kind of relationship they have with that person, who the person is to them, how the person died, and whether it was foreseen or not. People react differently to death for a number of reasons, and one main reason is based on what kind of relationship someone had with the person …show more content…
For instance, someone would probably be more impacted if it was a close relative or friend who died and not someone distant to the family. I still think he/she would be sad about the idea of the person passing away, but he/she would not be the kind of sad as if it were a parent, sibling, or grandparent who died instead. Take when I was four for example, I was at my great-grandmother’s funeral and nonchalantly thought “so what” as other people were crying their eyes out. I did not understand why they were crying at first, but I guess that was because I did not have a close or as strong of relationship with her like some of the older people there did. Also, I think that I reacted the way I did because I was so young and did not fully understand the concept of death. How close you are with someone and who they are to you can also greatly impact how you will react when it comes to his/her …show more content…
For instance, I was better able to control my emotions and let them out at a more gradual rate because I knew that eventually my grandfather was going to pass way from cancer. I had known that his inevitable fate was coming to a near when he stopped treatments, and the cancer had already spread too far to be stopped. Nevertheless, we were more distraught when a second cousin recently died of cancer. The reason we were more sensitive about her death was because no one knew that she had cancer or was even sick. If we had known she was sick, we would most likely have reacted to the situation similarly to that of my grandfather’s. This is how that just even being able to anticipate a person’s demise can greatly change how one will react when the time