Essay On Invisible Death

Death is something that has radically changed in the past several decades. Lately, the experience of death itself, both for the dying and for the individuals around them, has been diminished. This is partly influenced by the fact that we, at least in American culture, have pushed death away from our personal lives, and more into regulated settings such as hospitals or hospice care. Another key setting of invisible death includes individuals in correctional facilities who have no chance of getting out.
The main element that occurs to me in this phenomenon would be the fact that deaths are now being regulated into side areas in society. I think that by regulating dying individuals to hospice or hospitals to die can seem insensitive or uncaring compared to several decades ago where the dying …show more content…
This causes its own set of problems, such as reconciliation between loved ones. This can make their dying process easier, so long as they get the reconciliation they need, whether that be from making or receiving an apology, or expressing previously untold statements (Callanan & Kelley, 1992: 153).
The theory of invisible death factors into this phenomenon by several factors. This theory involves the idea that “society does not want to respond to death or have anything to do with it,” (Sanders, 2016). This is clearly evident throughout the majority of our society in recent years. The theory of invisible death has several key components. These include cognitive denial, emotional repression, and behavioral passivity (Sanders, 2016). These all play a role in making up the way we view individual death. Cognitive denial includes denial resulting from the belief that something is not happening, such as the person’s death or dying process (Sanders, 2016). Personally, I think that this stage has been showcased the most prevalently throughout my life from various family members. I