Naked in Death

William Faulker’s gothic tale begins with the death of Emily Grierson, the town’s “fallen monument”. Emily was a symbol of the town’s old southern heritage. As the town progressed forward, Emily Grierson and her, “eyesores among eyesores” of a house kept the town from truly advancing as a post-civil war society. Even as the newer generation came into authority, Emily refused to acknowledge them. This tale is portrayed from the perspective of the disgruntled towns folk as they gather and…

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…

I like plays that make me think. Of One Chord presented me with a scenario where my best friend’s girlfriend had died and my girlfriend who I love is abusing me. I had to ask myself what I would do in the face of such inner torment. The senior theater project Of One Chord employs the elements inherit to drama—performance, lines, set, and props—to communicate that suicide is not the answer to pain. Katie accurately embodied the character Michelle’s hurt and hate. Her body language suggested…

is legalized. For instance, the Netherlands now has around one hundred hospices — homes that provide care for the terminally ill — full of patients and 24-hour pain-control hotlines (Quill & Battin, 2004). The Oregon Death with Dignity Act would be another example. The Oregon Death with Dignity Act, which legalized physician-assisted suicide, actually increased the use of palliative care. Since the act had been passed, hospice referrals have increased by 20 percent (Lee, 1997). In essence, the…

Physician assisted suicide can be classified between euthanasia, and assisted suicide. Euthanasia is the process of painlessly helping a terminally ill person to die. With physician assisted suicide the patient is in complete control of their own death. In other words, the patient decides their own fate. An example of physician assisted suicide is when the patient decides to refuse…

life. In The Love Suicides of Amijima, Jihei and Koharu decide to end their lives alongside a river. The selection of the river for the location of their suicide could have been almost ironic. Because water represents life, using life as a place for death could be…

associated with the falling in birth rates will lead to “soon reach the point where each succeeding generation of mothers will be smaller than the last“ (Pearce, 2010, pp 293-294), which means that the number of births will not counterbalance the number of deaths, so the population will not be able to naturally renew. 1 ! Besides, some economical issues result from “the demographic time bomb“.…

maut or death. There are a total of 18 verses on this subject, found in the Kalaame Mawla under the title of Bayaane Piri wa Miragkaa – Narration on Old Age and Death. Maut or death is indeed a very important fact of our existence. Just as physical life is a significant component of our existence, likewise physical death is an equally important part of our existence. Just as physical life is an undeniable reality of our existence, similarly physical…

is a “Gemini” and that associates his character with friendliness. Contrasting this characterization, Tabori says he also had a dark side. This theme is very prevalent throughout the book. Tabori, in general, discusses the contrast between life and death, love and hate, and truth and…

of Emily Dickinson’s poems that death is important to Dickinson. Out of the thousands of poems Dickinson wrote, about 600 of them are concerned with the theme of death. The reason why the theme death is so important to Dickinson remains a topic for criticism and debate. Among these 600 many of them are her best loved and critically acclaimed poems, for example, “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,” “I Heard a fly buzz—when I Died,” and “Because I Could not Stop for Death,” are just a few of the…