Immortal in Death

Coping with the loss of loved one is always painful and inflexible challenges in life. Death or loss is natural part of life, but we will still overcome it by shock, sadness, crying, confusion, depression and other emotions( American Psychological Association, n.d). Griefing is most important in order to overcome the feelings and emotions related to loss of loved one, dealing with Grief is an adjustment to life after loss. Everyone has unique way of coping with stress and loss. For instance,…

His sudden death created an overtone of sadness with a new viewpoint for my friends and me. We began to see ourselves less than invincible, even fallible, not knowing when one of us could die. This was a big wake-up call, as we were only teenagers. To think we were less than immortal was a big deal, and it was certainly a time of personal growth for all of us. We got together and talked as we could during those first two weeks, also my first two weeks as a nineteen-year-old, and theorized…

The eternal theme of life, aging, and death never leaves anyone indifferent, as it concerns everyone. Though there is a huge scope for the imagination for the plot of the movie, the film producer, Lee Toland Krieger decided to make his “Age of Adaline” a romantic story of the woman whose lifetime differs from all other people, as she lost her ability to grow old. Adaline Bowman (Blake Lively) was a common person before the surprising natural phenomenon occurred to her in one winter night and…

The Walking Dead Syndrome Imagine living in a distorted reality; where you aren’t actually aware of being a fully functioning human individual who is alive and breathing. This is what Cotard’s Delusion does to those affected with it. Being an exceptionally rare syndrome, there is not much known about it besides the few individual studies recorded over the years. Cotard’s Delusion is a mental illness where the person who has contracted this syndrome delusionally believes that they’re either…

Darkness is displayed in many ways, including hopelessness and death, but the Great Depression shows the finest of it. This horrible time had a negative effect on people’s thinking, such as actual depression and the feeling of loss. Sounds can remind people of death as well. On the contrary, even reading words can scare anyone to death. O’brother Where Art Thou directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, and The Odyssey written by Homer and translated by Robert Fagles are arts that use words and sounds to…

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’…

Blaire Lewis Gary Boyer ENG 112 14 June 2017 Death as a Figure Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson is an emotional poem that utilizes personification, foreshadowing, and metaphors to enhance the meaning. This piece of literature stood out to me due to its syntax, form and interesting theme of mortality, along with the opposing force of immortality. It’s not until the end of the poem that you find out the story is told within the speaker’s memories of afterlife, for the…

poem “Because I could not stop for Death” truly attracted me. Death is inevitable for all human beings. When we were given birth, we started to face death. How to face death is the most difficult lesson which we need to study in our life, and many people are not able to understand it. In Dickinson’s poem, she gives me a completely new idea about death: humans are doomed to die. However, humanity is able to exist eternally. I want to understand her opinions about death and immortality; this can…

The human being has always caressed the dream of being immortal. This constant quest has caused the creation of multiple legends concerning the secret of eternal life. Some of them, such as the Philosopher's Stone or the Elixir of Life went on to be more popular. In addition to that, multiple religions also have immortality as a central part of their belief system. After years of research focused on the matter, we have reached a point where recent discoveries allow us to look past that dream and…

Death is a frequently explored theme in poetry. Despite the prevalence of this theme, each poet has their own distinct viewpoint about it and portray it in such a way that reflects their beliefs. These differences are both in attitude towards death as well as the point of view of the speaker. Some authors take on an optimistic portrayal of death whereas others use a pessimistic perspective. Point of view can be either through the eyes of someone who has died or someone who has lost a loved one.…