In this essay I attempted to move from why it is important to study death, to articulating what I have learned about death and the human body from various courses, to understanding how these courses informed me about my own views on death. What has affected my conception of death the most is my own experiences in addition to taking the courses Death, Body and the Law and Visual Arts and Health care. In Death, Body and the Law I learned that; the concept of death varies not just for every individual but for different professions, the concept of death lives through symbolism and personification, conceptions of death focus on people and not animals, plants etc., I have learned to reconcile death as a concept v. death as a reality, and I have learned
