Death Note

facing the imminent death; denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. She argues that if the individuals repressed the stages, they have risk to get stuck with the unresolved emotion caused by the death (Konigsberg 3). Therefore, it is suggested that the individuals are better to embrace each stage to avoid the unresolved emotion in the future. Additionally, through her book, Klüber-Ross proposes an idea to reject dehumanizing technology, embrace a normal death, and saw…

life, one is birth and the other is death. While birth is a joyful occasion that is celebrated and announced to everyone, death is often hidden in North American society. In the Slender Margin by Eve Joseph attempts to use an interdisciplinary approach in order to explore death and the differing perspectives towards it. She uses historical accounts, religious beliefs, personal memories, and literature in order to present the reader with various observations of death and how human beings interact…

is to discover the cause of death or the extent of disease is called an Autopsy; it is performed by a doctor called an Autopsy Surgeon who most often than not has to cut open the body of the deceased to examine the insides of the person’s body such as organs to see if there are telling signs to lead to a cause of death such as poison in the liver or punctures in the lungs. Understanding the role the medical examiner (autopsy surgeon) plays in evaluating suspicious deaths has a lot to do with…

“The Story of an Hour” by Katherine Anne Porter had the beginnings of a sorrow filled story, a fragile hearted wife stricken with the news of her husband’s sudden death. But unexpectedly the story diverges into the thoughts of a women, Mrs. Mallard whom feels liberated at the thought of her life without her husband, Bentley Mallard. The story is told thru symbols such as Mrs. Mallard’s heart disease, the scenery of her facing the window, and ultimately what Bentley Mallard represents. Mrs.…

Even after her death Rossetti still managed to impact modern day authors in Britain. Her work is to have said influenced Elizabeth Jennings…

Margaret Atwood’s short story, “Death by Landscape,” focus on how the protagonists are isolated from the world, the people around them, and how they handle conflicts. There are similarities in how the protagonists are isolated and involved in conflicts or struggles, and although both protagonists experience a suicide situation, their endings are different. Paul, the protagonist in “Paul’s Case,” lives his short life fully, whereas Lois, the protagonist in “Death by Landscape,” lives a longer…

The first lines of the poem say “At home I have a blue piano/ but I cannot play a note”. This simple sentence brings up two essential questions. First, where is home? And second why can’t she play it? Research on Lasker-Schuler’s life is essential to answering these questions. Lasker-Schuler was born in Germany and lived there for much…

The Beauty of Death From a young we learn to fear death, or more to stir clear of the unknown, we put ourselves in a box and turn our minds from the thought of one day passing away to drift off to a place no one truly knows about. Yet fortunately some poets managed to write some beautiful poems to best try to give us a little bit of a new feeling to this topic of death, three poems in particular that really help us overcome the fear of death that of “I heard a Fly buzz” and “Because I…

“For the Anniversary of My Death” and “The Nail” are considered as the main turning point in W.S Merwin’s use of stylistic approach to poetry. In almost all of his poems, he virtually uses no punctuation of any kind as his choices of words are simpler. Still present in these poems are the poet’s fascination with death, the spiritual, ruination, and the natural. These poems capture the facets of Merwin’s 1960s style and the use of imagery. They are also presented in stanzas, which are irregular,…

extensively integrated as an overlying theme in Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and “The Dump” by Donald Hall. In Miller’s play, Willy slowly begins to lose his grasp on rational thinking in his old age. He puts himself in danger as a result, but Miller also emphasizes the toll it takes on his family. In “The Dump”, ageing is portrayed in a solitary and resigned nature. It represents the last years of one’s life as a mere gateway to inevitable death. In both texts, ageing is characterized…