Death is often a hard thing to understand and very emotional for everyone who is affected by it. More times than not it is hard to react in the proper way when someone else is dealing with a death. The book “Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communication of the Dying” by Maggie Callan and Patricia Kelley is all about Hospice care nurses. They tell many stories about their dying patients and their families reactions to the death process. Most of the stories show how to better listen to someone who is dying, how to react to certain situations not just initially react but truly analyze the situation, how to make both the dying and the people around them that more comfortable and also they showed the steps of grieving.…
In the book, A Grace Disguised, by Jerry Sittser, the author shares an emotionally raw account of his personal loss of three family members-his wife, his young daughter, and his mother in a tragic car accident. He takes us through his ability to endure grief and the long journey to forgiveness. Not only must he care for his remaining three children and their emotional wellbeing, he must conquer his own emotions, overcome the overwhelming feeling of loss, and repair his relationship with God. Sittser shows us through his own pain the importance of taking on loss and sorrow head on, that darkness comes with unforgiving and light with forgiveness, and that no one is immune from having hardships brought into their lives. Everyone will suffer from the pain of loss at some point in their lives.…
People should recognize and stress the importance for everybody to understand the nature of grief in order to help themselves and others deal with loss. ((Doka, Kenneth J.) There’s many different ways that grief can be experienced, “there is no strict timetable for the duration of grief; while the intensity of the pain may lessen with time, and grieve over the loss of a loved one often lingers for years.” (Doka, Kenneth J.) Grief has many different effects on different people. Some people spend more time and effort working as a way to seek respite from the loss.…
THe next ten minutes would be life altering. High school students love the thrill of a Friday night football game, and the last minute touchdown to win the game made the night even better. We all rushed to the center of the field to figure out where to go for an after-game dinner. Most of us wanted to go to Taco Mac, but we knew the wait for a table was going to take to long so we decided to try Cheeky.…
Ogunjimi expresses the importance of not avoiding a friend, or coworker due to fear of saying or doing the wrong thing during their grieving process. The support is what carries someone who is grieving through the darkest times in their life by being surrounded by love from coworkers and friends. It is important to acknowledge a grieving person, even if it makes friends or coworkers feel uncomfortable. A simple hug, or an “I am praying for you” type of message can do wonders (Ogujimi, 2015). Coworkers should express condolences, even if they were not close to the one grieving.…
People learn through pain. Everybody experiences loss. When people lose somebody they are devastated. Everybody experiences loss even if…
Companionship is the feeling of friendship or comfort between individuals, thus showing the importance of support and presence. One may gain companionship without being acquainted with the individual beforehand, proving the simplicity and lack of complication behind the concept. In Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Misery by Anton Chekov, The Monster and protagonists Iona both required companionship. Both stories Frankenstein and Misery possessed an absence of companionship, although they maintain many insignificant differences the similarities between The Monster and Iona are clearly evident, thus resulting in negative impacts to characters and society. Losing a friend or a family member can be very fatal and may lead an individual to be deeply…
Tram Dang Total hour: 5 hours and 30 minutes Journal #2 I know the recently death of Dr. Skinner was a total shock to our UNC-Charlotte community. All my four years here, I have never experienced anything like this before and for a while, I was in disbelieved that something like this could ever happened to her. However, because of this incident, it made me more grateful that I had taken the Death and Dying class last spring. It taught me not to use euphemism when I talk about this with my family and friends.…
This is crucial to one’s life. Two years back, I lost my mother and I personally know what it was like to go through it and process that, through at the same time, I cannot fully empathize with another who has lost a loved one. I feel concerned for people who experience loss of a friend or kindred and are so depressed that they decide to commit suicides. Death or accident is a reality; one cannot deny nor challenge it. Whether it comes unexpected or one is aware of it, it is a truth that one needs to deal with.…
1.Discuss at least three components of hospice care. Then, compare these elements to other forms of life options. What form of end-of-life care would you want for yourself? Why? (SLO 4c: Chapter 6)…
My current practicum placement is Huntington Beach High School (HBHS), in the Huntington Beach Union High School District. At my site the students are made available an abundance of services at the “Wellness Center” on campus. This wellness center was one of the reasons I was so excited to join the HBHS team, and is composed of three psychology’s, the speech pathologist and social skills expert, the nurse, and twice a week a wellness counselor. The resources, including the space size, it the finest I’ve seen.…
Tragedy is an event that is bad. A fatal tragedy is sad because it is when somebody dies. There are many ways that people manage non-fatal or fatal tragedy people can manage it by writing in a journal, or keeping it to yourself, don’t deny it, keep persons spirit alive. When someone dies like a fatal tragedy.it is okay too cry, you can talk about it, you can talk and think about memories you had with them, and you can keep the persons spirit alive ex: you can plant trees, flowers, you can have jewelry, and you can have jewelry with their ashes on it if they are cremated. I think if someone dies you should not put it on social media…
A dying person’s grief has two different parts. The person dying is either mourning from what’s lost already to their illness such as their health, family role, loss of employment, or just the general loss of their independence. The second part of their grief is the thought of what they will lose after their death, such as relationships, life, and their future. Never make light or dismiss the feelings of a dying person. Comments such as “You’ve had a good life,” or “We’ve all got to die sometime” will make a dying person’s feelings seem miniscule and unimportant.…
Death of a loved one When a loved one passes away we are never prepared for the changes that will come to our lives from this tragic accident. Receiving the call that my aunt had passed away in a car crash was very shocking to me and the whole family. It’s something that no family member in this world wants to go through the loss of a loved one. Managing the emotions and feelings we may have after the news is very important since we have to be strong minded and be able to move forward. Family will always be the most important thing we have in this world since they are everything we really have in life.…
I am very proud of the unifying attitudes towards coping with sickness and death now embedded in my family. Growing up, I was always baffled why people were so deeply affected by death. I had never had an immediate family member or close friend pass away and I never understood people’s drastic reactions to death. To me, it seemed to be a natural process that everyone goes through.…