Nellie Tayloe Ross

Ethics is a subject fully steeped in observation and informed speculation. It seeks to construct a sort of ‘outline’ to life, referencing interactions with self and others. Ethics, also referred to as moral philosophy, forces us to think about morality under a thousand different scopes. Many philosophers described endless theories; all in efforts to teach people how to live. Philosophers often ascribe to theories characterized by a group of interconnected ideals that result from a single, basic…

Describe the Situation: Grief is an individual’s natural coping mechanism when dealing with the loss of someone/something no longer in their life. As portrayed by Heart to Heart Hospice, “grief is the natural way we cope with loss” (When You Are Grieving, 2013). Heart to Heart Hospice, located in Indiana, Michigan and Texas, is a hospice agency that provides services for individuals with incurable illnesses and their loved ones. To obtain contact information, services provided or local…

Prigerson’s Work Third, Dr. Holly Prigerson, who is currently the Irving Sherwood Wright Professor of Geriatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College, and the Professor of Sociology in Medicine, and Director, Center for Research on End-of-Life Care, has research and authored studies focused on prolonged grief disorder, religious influences on end-of-life care, and “psychosocial and behavioral influences on medical care and care outcomes for patients and families confronting life-threatening…

There is a dynamic duo that is always at work, never stopping for anyone, no matter how much it hurts. This duo is know as life and death, both are never ending cycles that can not be dismissed by anyone on this earth. No matter how powerful or weak we are, all living things must once die. So far my entire life consist of over thinking and questioning what it means to live and die. After losing my mother to Breast Cancer February 2 2016, I often found myself crying till my head started…

felt in many different circumstances such as during a divorce, moving away from a dear friend, or in any scenario where loss of the attached person, animal, or object occurs. (Kubler-Ross) Typically, mourning is associated with death. All people from all walks of life experience grief differently. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, a Swiss-American psychiatrist, made remarkable progress in the study of the mourning process when she published her five stages grief in the 1969 book “On Death and Dying”…

The five stages of grief are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. During some or most of the five stages of grief, a person is able to learn coping mechanisms to help them through that stage and the grief process. Research has shown that the same coping mechanisms are used whether the person is a teenager or the elderly. Also, that a teenager is more likely to have a hostile reaction versus a middle-aged adult or the elderly. Depression can affect everyone which includes family…

Sarah, throughout the film watching her struggle and in pain was quite difficult, and seeing her pass away I knew that she was at rest finally. Watching this documentary has given me insight into integrity and despair, the several stages of the Kubler-Ross model of dying, the role of a caregiver from a family member’s stand point, and how others grieve the loss of a family member. At the beginning of film Sarah experiences integrity as she begins to face the ending of her life. She is satisfied…

Grief and loss are unpreventable events that most people will experience at least once in their life (Howarth, 2011). Grief is typically associated with death. Nevertheless, grief and loss may be associated with the loss of a limb, loss of function, and so on. Healthcare providers will inevitably have patients and families that experience both. Some clients may have advanced warning that the loss will occur, which may make the grieving process somewhat easier. However, a sudden onset of a loss…

Corr and Corr (2012) define bereavement as an event characterized with the loss of someone close to an individual, and is often associated with psychological and emotional distress which manifest in the form of grief. (Corr and Corr (2012) indicate that the psychosocial and emotional changes that occur in case of bereavement follow a defined pattern that can be explained through multiple models: the Freudian model and Bowlby’s model, among others. In my case, the death of my grandmother had…

Denial. Anger. Bargaining. Depression. Acceptance. 5 seemingly unrelated words, but together they make up the 5 stages of grief. They are all necessary to your mental sanity and getting through this difficult time. They are inevitable. Though you may wish it were otherwise, they are unavoidable. Knowing what’s ahead may make the load a little lighter. The first stage is Denial. Denial: to declare something untrue. You tell yourself nothing’s changed, that everything is fine, because ignoring…