Cremation

Often times when it comes to the Holocaust, the Concentration Camp most taught about and therefore known about, is Auschwitz. This may be because of Auschwitz’ extreme death toll or it’s overall ‘accomplishment,’ of the mass murder of Jews, Gypsies, Homeosexuals, and the many other oppressed peoples discriminated against during Hitler’s rule ("Concentration Camp Notes.") Although Auschwitz was the most successful on it’s journey to eliminate Jews, many do not realize, it was only one in six…

Ring Around the Rosie and The Black Plague In the 14th century, a terrible plague also known as the Bubonic plague struck Europe in 1347, killing over a million people. There is a strange conspiracy theory about the relations between the nursery rhyme “Ring Around the Rosie” and the Black Death. These theories have been reported related to each other because of the lyrics of the song, and the symptoms in the disease. With that being said, I believe that the nursery rhyme has very little to do…

Visiting anthropologist were overworking him despite his apparent weakness in order to once again benefit from his condition. Anthropologist and scientists also demonstrated extreme malevolence through their deceit in providing Ishi with proper cremation. Instead, selfish as they were once Ishi had deceased they took full advantage of his death and resorted to performing an autopsy on him and removing his brain for…

Racial discrimination is a serious problem in our society, but was even worse of a problem in the 1950’s. Discrimination against African Americans in the 1950’s caused different struggles such as lack of education and lack of income, even all the way down to informed consent, or better yet the lack of. African Americans faced everyday struggles because of these things like not being able to get a good education because they were “different” and not having good jobs so they weren’t able to have…

Cadavers in Science: Symbolism in Roach’s Stiff Do you ever wonder what happens after you die? Although no living person has a guarantee of what becomes of your mind and soul, they do know what your body may endure. Mary Roach, author of Stiff, explored the usage of the dead in everything from bullet wounds to anatomy dissection to body decomposition. She also examined the history of corpse studies that lead to safer cars, different methods for disposing of remains, and an increase in forensic…

How does Buddhism reflect the human understanding of God or the ‘Other’ With a population of 23 million Australia has grown into one the most culturally and linguistically diverse societies in the world. With this comes a wide variety of religions - over 120 in fact. Out of these religions there are five that are considered to be the ‘world religions’; they are, Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam and Christianity. Each religion allows its followers to explore a world beyond their day-to-day…

society, but some Christian values influenced them, too. On the contrary, the characters in The Hunger Games were more introduced to the Christian religion as opposed to Pagan values. Pagan thoughts such as wyrd, also known as fate, ship burial and cremation, using special swords, greed, and boasting were common in Beowulf. The Hunger Games focused on the number twelve. The twelve in The Bible symbolizes government, the number of Israeli tribes, and the number of disciples. In The Hunger Games,…

In The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion contends that magical thinking, the principal motif in her memoir, reinforces that grief is a state of mental illness in which unreasonable, impractical thinking replaces rational and sensible thoughts. Initially, Didion deems grief solely as a greater intensity of typical, everyday sentiments, but later considers grief as an emotional disorder, which becomes one of the central themes. With the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and illnesses…

that is one of the main reasons why people choose not to donate any of their organs. They believe that when they come back in the next life, they won’t have complete set of organs. The only ridiculous thing about that is Buddhist also believes in cremation. Everything that you called your body will eventually turn in to dust. I asked my American host mother about her opinion about organ donation and she told me that she believes in helping other people. She believes that there is nothing…

because they believe burial should be as minimalist as possible. Bodies are cared for by a community organization known as the Cherva Kaddisha which stands for holy society. If it’s possible no autopsy or organ removal is allowed and there is no cremation. The Judaism religion believes that the body must touch the earth because it is an important aspect of the creation of man and the idea that the body came from the earth while the soul came from heaven. One key aspect of burial in Judaism is…