The Book 's Name Is `` Smoke Gets On Your Eyes ' By Caitlin Doughty

Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death by Irvin D. Yalcom is a raw and unfiltered look at one of the most difficult challenges everyone faces, death. He takes you through the real-life experiences of his patients, past and present, and shares his thoughts about death. The real-life examples have a way of grasping your attention and pulling you in. He assists his patients in recognizing the reality of death, but not fearing it. Yalcom suggests that people have varying degrees of death anxiety. For some, death is not even a thought, while for others it may consume their thoughts. He also suggests that our everyday anxieties may ultimately originate from our fear of death. He includes observations of approaches used by famous philosophers. While reading, you cannot help but to contemplate your own life and envision your death.

As I read the reading “death”, I can conclude that the main idea for this reading that the author wants his readers to believe that the death is not something scary. We all should not be afraid about the fact that our bodies will cease to exist after death.

Death is a big part of growing up. Whether or not it has to do with the loss of something or the loss of adolescence. In the coming of age stories we read there were 3 stories that connected in a sense of death and fear. This fear of change adds to the fear of growing up and learning new lessons that transition to adulthood. In coming of age stories authors tend to use symbolism to show death of the characters loss of childhood and the young mind they once had.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” (Mark Twain). This quote from the famous American writer is the basis for what became one of the hardest ideas to comprehend, death. Death has always been a complex term, causing one to struggle with what the true definition is. It is also hard to wrap your mind around what does it truly mean to die. These are the questions we long for the answer. Whether we acknowledge it or not, death has always been feared by many. Death remains an impossible question, one that has been unexplained since beginning of time. Even though dying is a natural, we as a human race still fear it. What can be done to defeat this never-ending battle? According to Montaigne’s “To Philosophize is to Learn to Die” and Cory Taylor’s “Questions for Me About Dying” we can overcome this by living to the fullest, living with no regrets, living a legacy, and lastly not fearing the inevitable. If you want to conquer the question of life, live in the moment.

I am reading the novel ‘Dead Men Do Tell Tales’, written by William R. Maples. The protagonist, William, is a forensic anthropologist. His speciality is the human skeleton. At the beginning of the section, he discussed his personal relationship with death. William explains that death, which he has had countless interactions with, does not phase him. It’s more of a friend than foe to him. The opinion of having no fear over this natural process is one that I can agree with; I am not scared of dying. I also agreed with William’s thought that truth wants to be discovered - he explains that forensic anthropology goes that further bit of distance to give the truth of a situation. The author continues to speak about death and his curiosities about why he’s so drawn to it. At first, I assumed this was because of his father's death, but William was eleven by then. I don’t think there is much of a correlation due to his fascination that manifested itself before his father had died.

“To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.” Socrates one of the greek philosophers in the 400’s BC, gives a reasonable question about the fear of death. Death affects people and characters very differently in life. In the world of literary works two very well known authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe present two works that both deal with the effects of this very thing the fear of death. Laid out in the next few pages we shall see that there are many connections to

In White Noise by Don DeLillo, the human fear of death is shown on almost every page. The book consists of nothing but white noise in a world that distracts people from their fears. To Jack, the bigger you are the less you have to be afraid of dying. His obsessions for Hitler serves as a distraction and a comfort for him from this fear. In an interview, Matters of Facts and Fiction with Anthony DeCurtis, Don DeLillo also talks about the reasons behind Jack Gladney’s attempt to calm his fear of death through his work in the Department of Hitler Studies. The human fear of death is also shown by the way Jack and the other people act during the Toxic Event. In Could it Happen in America?, Melinda Beck talks about technology created the toxic event

There was once a man who feared death for most of his life. When he was in his twenties, he stopped doing dangerous stunts in case he could die from it. In his thirties, he stopped eating food, from the worry of choking. He became very thin and was taken to the hospital because of his poor state. He realized that if he stopped eating it would result to him starving to his death. In his forties, he stopped driving in the fear of dying to his car crash. In his fifties, he stopped going out during the night in case murderers lurked the streets around his home. In his sixties, he feared plane trips to his son’s home country in case there was an accident, and stopped going to visit his son. In his seventies, he stayed away from other older people,

Thanks to the linear time structure of the western world, time is no longer infinite. People of our culture constantly have to stress over rushing to arrive at an appointment on time, turning in an assignment by a particular day, or having a prepared meal on the table at 5 o’clock on the dot. As days are filled with schedules dictated by time, the time itself just seems to slip away. This passing of linear time creates the worry that life is too short and this generates the concern about death, especially about what happens when one dies. In the western world, we as a people are highly conscious of milestones measuring passing time as these marks signal the approach of the enigmatic death and remind us that our time is limited.

We all must serve something or somebody in our life, living serving fear is like living in captivity. It can happen, that our instinct sometimes, warns us of the danger that in reality doesn’t exist. The fear of looking at death's face tells us that we are not ready and suggests the escaping the unknown that is flashing upon us. It warns us to be afraid of the dark awaiting and we are not ready to accept all the images about death from us projected and dictated by our fear.

We are born and then we die, since no human is immortal, we must all endure this cycle of life. Since each human must endure the dying process, it is common that as humans we have and share mutual feelings and thoughts toward the experience of dying, such as a fear of death. In a poll of the top one-hundred phobias in America, Thanatophobia or the fear of death ranked number twelve, signifying that the experience of death is considered by many to be a very frightening thing ("Top 100 Phobia List." ). Numerous people may fear death; however, various philosophers have challenged this notion. Throughout the years, numerous philosophers have provided various valid points in order to alleviate our fears of death. After considering the reasons

Not many people think of death as something that can be survived. After all, death is an inescapable aspect of life for all things on Earth. There are, however, instances where death stares one in the face and is repelled at the last moment. Whether this avoidance is right or wrong, the outcome will have the same, everlasting effect. The survivor will forever carry that moment with them, haunted by the injustice done to them. Robbed of the serenity that death may bring from bleak scenarios, life becomes devoid of the vibrancy it once possessed. The survivor becomes a ghost with a physical form, walking with the burdens of their past resting on their minds. Analyzing the events that these people encountered with this mindset can foster a greater sense of empathy toward the survivors.

Statistically speaking half of the students answered yes to the question are you afraid to die. Then, They was asked how they wanted to die and 40% said in their sleep, but 30% said a traumatic death. The fear is based on not wanting to go through the dying, like where you will go afterwards. the fear of the unknown.Where you want to go and you don't really know if that's where you will go.The thought of death on a daily base can lead to a phobia called thanatophobia. (George Campbell 2013 Exit Strategy New York) Humans have trouble thinking of death at an early stage of their lives. This causes a delay in the writing of a will, buying a coffin, looking at cemeteries. We must not think too

Death is inevitable part of human experience, which is often associated with fear of unknown, separation, and spiritual connection. Death is an individual experience, which is based on unique perceptions and beliefs. Fear of death and dying seems to be a universal phenomenon, which is closely associated with apprehension and uneasiness. Death is allied with permanent loss, thus personal experiences of grief are similar in many different cultures. There are different mourning ceremonies, traditions, and behaviors to express grief, but the concept of permanent loss remains unchanged in cross cultural setting. With this paper I will identify cross-cultural perspectives on death and dying, and will analyze

In the Chinese culture, death as a result of natural aging is referred to as “bai xi shi” which translates to “white happy event” (Xu, 2007, p.412). This notion of death is perceived positively only