Life after death

each one of us deals differently with the death concept, death is a common denominator for everyone, as all of us will eventually die. The unexpected death of a person and mostly the death of love one can affect seriously our psychological health as shown on Holmes and Rahe Social Readjustment Rating Scale in which the death of a spouse is the first on the list of forty-three traumatic life events. Suicide and murder are examples of traumatic unexpected death situations in which most people…

suffers isolation from himself and the world. He lives life with detachment and lack of emotion. The author was born in Algeria and grew up in extreme poverty which influenced his writing of The Stranger. The mood of the entire book is dark. This essay of The Stranger is to present arguments why the events and circumstances in the life of Meursault have made him emotionally unstable, indifferent from people, and inhuman. The story begins with the death of Meursault’s mother. He does not get sad…

immortality is to live forever, to have eternal life. Kevin Brockmeier, the author of The Brief History of the Dead, uses the city and the many people within the city to express the theme of both mortality and immortality. The city is the afterlife of the dead and the theme uses memory to keep the people alive in the after world. The lives of the dead is irony within itself. The dead live in a city where people from the living world come after death. Immortality is present throughout the entire…

Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven begins with the end of the pompous life of first-class Hollywood star Arthur Leander, when he is suddenly struck by a heart attack and dies on stage amid his performance of King Lear. Less than 24 hours from his death, a deadly contagious pandemic called Georgia Flu falls upon the earth and threatens the existence of the whole civilization. With 99 percent of human population swiftly vanishes within the matter of week, Mandel envisions how the once…

The film, The Bucket List, has many examples of the American Death System. The American death system has several elements; people, places, times, objects, and symbols. The Bucket List shows all of these elements. Throughout the movie the main characters, Edward and Carter, are in and out of a hospital where they are being taken care of by a variety of nurses and doctors. These people are all a part of the death system, they are constantly surrounded by people dying, having to take care of people…

Death and dying is a part of our everyday life, death practices and rituals are all different depending on sex, age, and ethnic/religious backgrounds. As Kathryn Desmond wrote in a 2016 American Nurse today, she stated that “we first must be aware that cultures have different systems of belief around health, wellness, and practices”. We cannot expect for one person to handle the death of a loved one in the same way that you would or anyone else. For healthcare employees, it is of great value to…

“Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making” by Dr. Timothy Quill is an account about the death of one of his patients, a woman named Diane. Diane had struggled with depression and alcoholism, and earlier in life, cancer: now in a better position in life, she was struck with the news that she had acute myelomonocytic leukemia. Upon hearing that her chances of survival, with long-term treatment would only be 25 percent, she chose to forgo chemotherapy and to live whatever time…

suicide would give these patients a more dignified death surrounded by their loved ones and can potentially help others with their illnesses. It is one of today’s most debatable topics, and is illegal in most countries. PAS is such a difficult concept to accept, just as any concept surrounding death is, but in the right circumstances it is beneficial. Physician assisted suicide needs to be a legal option for every ill, suffering patient, after all other medical…

but not all of them could provide that. Assisted Suicide is when a physician provides their patient with a lethal amount of drugs, resulting in death, because they have been suffering. Assisted suicide is legal in 5 states, and many states are considering it. Assisted suicide should be legal, because Us humans have the right to die, especially when death is around the corner, and our lives are miserable, us humans have the right to the treatment they want to take, or don’t want to, and lastly…

murder? It involves taking the life of a fellow human being, but it is performed out of human compassion and it is agreed upon by the patient and fellow physicians. Countries where the practice is illegal consider this as murder, where countries where physician assisted suicide is legal consider it as an act of compassion, empathy, and as putting someone out of their misery. Physician Assisted Suicide is a very controversial issue as is every issue that involves the death of a fellow human…