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    This is my own personal philosophy paper where I will be talking about views on life, health, illness, attitudes, beliefs related to death and dying, experiences and attitudes towards grief and bereavement, importance of culture on death and dying, and expectations of health professionals. I will talk about how my own life experiences have affected me in each of these categories. Everyone is exposed to different surrounding and situations. Other 's handle situations, or issues in their own way.…

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    A Examination of the Shock of Death: Emily Dickinson 's’ “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” and “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died” “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” and “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died” are both poems written by Emily Dickinson, the former in 1863 and the latter in 1862. According to Christopher Nesmith writer of “Dickinson 's I Heard a Fly Buzz” “Many of Emily Dickinson’s poems are enigmatic, but perhaps none baffles its readers more than ‘I Heard a Fly Buzz-When I Died”…

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    until he died. From the death of his parents, leaving his career of an apothecary-surgeon in order to pursue poetry, to caring for his dying brother, and falling in love. When he caught tuberculosis in July of 1820 many of the sonnets he wrote contained his recognition of mortality. The sonnet “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles” tells the reader how John Keats struggles with mortality and that struggle brought this sonnet to express that accepting fate exceeds denying an inevitable death. John Keats’…

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    End Of Life Decisions

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    When I first initially began the literature search, I had hoped to focus my focus on the preconceived notions that surrounded the concept of death and how patient’s families viewed end of life care. My research question originally was: how would patient’s families describe a good death when facing end of life decisions? However, as I continued to consider this topic and assessed the literature, my interest shifted to understanding how nurses would describe patients…

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    Double Effect Case Study

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    In regards to the Anna Pou case, I think that I would have made a similar decision with the information that Dr. Pou had at the time. In our textbook, it states that the remaining staff after Hurricane Katrina believed that “no further evacuation or help was coming to them (Pence 56).” Therefore, the staff decided to euthanize the remaining nine patients to avoid any unnecessary pain and suffering. Prior to making this decision, I would have contacted the administrators of Memorial Hospital and…

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    Pain In Troius By Chaucer

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    Men endure three types of pain: back, tooth, and heart. The narrator in this poem by Chaucer seems to be making a plea to God. Troilus, the narrator, is the subject in question. Is he heartbroken? The first stanza suggests he is, but also, he is unable to go against these feelings. His love is so deep that he must endure these feelings. He can’t help himself from giving in to the pain. Troilus loves Criseyde so much that he is willing to knowingly put himself through pain in order to feel her…

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    the Phaedo imparts the ideology Socrates had in regard to the immortality of the soul and his views about death, which he was about to face himself. Among a gathering of his most faithful followers, his friends are astonished that Socrates is not desolate about his ill fate, but rather, he is delighted with it. Socrates proclaims that the life of a philosopher is merely a preparation for death since the mind is most pure when the pressures of the body is felt least. He even informs them that he…

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    foreshadow their emotional and physical state. Names indicate an inevitable mold that the characters fit into overtime. Macon I and his son, Macon II fit into to their last name, Dead. When Macon Dead I endures a physical death, which causes his son to endure an emotional death. Emotional death is when a person is numb to all emotions while they live a numb life. However, Macon Dead III or Milkman defies his probable future because he indulges in a quest to self-identity and discovers his…

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    composes of constraining walls inside of other walls, that can become a barrier to the outside world. The short story “The Story of An Hour” by Kate Chopin, hints about Mrs. Mallard’s celebration for freedom after the news of her husband’s death, and her sudden death on seeing her husband again. Did she die because she was overjoyed or was it fear of living in bondage? Story of An Hour tells a story about a middle aged woman who claims to be in love with her husband but is trapped in a unhappy…

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    In his 2006 movie, The Pursuit of Happyness, Will Smith portrays impoverished single father Chris Gardner as he moves through the five levels of Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. This hierarchy theorizes basic needs that are required in order to reach happiness in life. The search for fulfillment is not a journey experienced by Gardner alone. Peace prize winner Hermann Hesse’s 1922 novel Siddhartha tells the story of a young man who experiences the various levels of Maslow’s hierarchy before…

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