A Happy Death

they perceive death, their beliefs about immortality, their historical and religious background, and their cultural traditions. In each culture, rituals and customs surround death, helping people mourn and grieve. Rituals help people express their grief and allowed chances for loved ones, friends, and the public to support the bereaved. Death can create sadness, chaos and confusion and rituals provide a sense of normalcy, and a set of directions that help structure the time around death,…

In “An Inner Freedom” Frankle shows that spiritual freedom can keep one grounded. He witnessed a woman’s death, but was confused when she was happy although she knew that she would not be on this earth for long. She says that she is grateful for “fate” hitting her hard and also said that in her “former life” she never took “spiritual accomplishments seriously” (Frankle). At…

illnesses are living longer and are also dying slower. Euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide are options that patients with terminal illnesses and long term disease may consider (Mihaela, 2012). Euthanasia is defined as “the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal from suffering form an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition”…

is necessary to preform a procedure such a physician-assisted suicide (Gupta). Dr. Samir Gupta, a medical doctor, states that his views have change over the year while watching patients suffer. He believes it is okay to perform physician-assisted death because of sympathy and empathy (Gupta). Coming from the patient’s standpoint it is ultimately their decision and no one else knows what they are going through is what makes it acceptable (Gupta). A family struggling with grief and anxiety…

Death is something that everyone will have to deal with in their lifetime, whether it is someone you are close to or just know of. In 2003, a survey conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics reported that 146,000 procedures to “insert permanent feeding tubes” were done by struggling families (Life-Support Decisions). It is common to hear people say that if they were in that situation they would want to be put to sleep, or in other words, they would hope for euthanasia. In the United…

The dialogue “Phaedo” takes place during the time that Socrates was to be executed after being falsely convicted. Before his death, Socrates explored many theories regarding the body and the soul with his pupil Plato. Plato presents four different arguments to prove the immortality of the soul, that all though the human body perishes after death; the soul still exists. Firstly, he explains the Theory of the Opposite Forms that something came to be living only after having first been dead. Then…

ultimately a person’s responsibility. That includes the choice of a patient to die on their own terms. If a patient chooses to die, that is how they want to shape their life, This especially pertains to patients with a terminal illness. Physician assisted death is the basically suicide of a terminally ill patient with the help of a physician. The physician would prescribe a lethal dose of drugs to the patient. The patient would have to take the medicine on their own. They would also have to be…

From working in a hospital I have experience with people and death. I have seen people after they have been told that death is near. Although no one takes the news well, there are two different reactions once the emotions have begun to settle. I met an old man who decided the only thing to do was pity himself. The nurses would ask him if he wanted to go for a walk and he would refuse. No one wanted to go into his room because of how irritable and mean he was. He died a lonely man sitting in his…

of firearm deaths( more than 30,000 each year) and with around 400,000 gun crimes committed every year. According to this statistic, strict and powerful laws are needed to keep guns out of the public. 270 millions guns are owned by Americans, and thousands of people die from gun each year, which shows that guns don’t keep us safe. Although many people own guns for self-protection, studies and statistic have shown that a gun in the people’s hand increase the risk of firearm-related death or…

Due to her illness , her sister Josephine and her husband's friend Richards has the hard task to tell Louise that her husband Brently Mallard has died in a train wreck. During this first hour Mrs. Mallard experiences the sorrow of her husband's death and the loneliness she would feel, but also the conflicting and exciting feelings of being able to feel alive and the freedom she will have in the future being alone without her husband. Today, Kate Chopin is considered in today's standard is a…