Language death

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

is destroyed. In that moment, innocence trumps all. All Nemecsek wanted was to be respected by his friends. He had such devotion and innocent passion for the cause that the other side respected him. He was a good person, everyone felt it. And his death was the only way to unite the two sides. This powerful idea of innocence rising above all is utterly Borzage. In the way only Borzage can do, the audience, at the end, is brought to a place where goodness can fix everything. Of course, that ending…

Kohlberg claims that the final stage of morality is achieved during adulthood, but do our morals ever truly stop developing? In “Young Goodman Brown” and “Everyday Use”, this is certainly not the case. The protagonists in these short stories undergo dramatic changes as a result of their ethic altering experiences. Nathaniel Hawthorne and Alice Walker use relatable moral dilemmas to construct complex characters who grow beyond their abstract meanings. The authors of “Everyday Use” and “Young…

Morrie’s opinions on death were that many experiences are more important than material objects. None of those material objects will matter when the person is gone. Morrie thinks that in this country material objects are way too important to people. Love and Happiness are what…

I. Do you know how many children and adolescents are brought to the emergency room for gun related accidents each year? Over 7,000. Of that 7,000, 6% (about 420 children) actually die from their injuries. These numbers don’t even include the estimated 3,000 who die before they’re able to reach the ER. Modern gun control began in 1968 with the Gun Control Act. This allowed state, local, and federal law enforcement officials to have increased power in regulating gun control (this was in an…