The Death Of A Loved One

The death of a family member is an inevitable occurrence in one’s life. A person will not have just one single reaction or coping method to a loved ones’ death. In James agees A Death in the Family a man named Jay is instantly killed in a car accident while on his way home late one night. Jays wife Mary is shocked to hear that her husband has just died and reacts in a couple of different ways. Being with her family, discussing the accident, and praying are all ways that Mary reacted to and coped with Jays

Many people define their lives by the relationships within their family. They are someone’s daughter, someone’s wife, or someone’s mother or father. The loss of a family member, especially due to death, creates a radical readjustment to people’s day to day lives and how they see and feel about themselves. Sometimes the process of grief can last over several years and how it is mentally processed and dealt with is different for everyone. “Mud” by Geoffrey Forsyth, shows an insightful view of a grieving man who had already lost his father and grandmother and is now just coming to terms with the loss of his wife two years prior. The entire story is written in first person point of view which allows for the reader to fully engage themselves in the grief and strife of the narrator’s life. Geoffrey’s story “Mud” begins in the home of the narrator where he encounters these dead family members and has to decide if he is ready to move on from his grief and say goodbye or stay behind and be consumed by it.

Death and Dying is a normal process part of everyone’s lifecycle, and yet, is often a hidden topic and not discussed on a regular basis. Death is something we learn about over our own lifetime as we lose those dear to our hearts and mourn the loss that we experience. No two people experience death and react to death in the exact same way. Often, differing family and cultural practices can influence how one reacts and copes with death or a loss.

No one that I’d loved so dearly had ever died. The whirlwind experience of waiting for my parents to come home, watching my parents, aunts, and uncles plan a funeral, and then missing school for both the wake and the funeral was exhausting. The jam-packed schedule did not give me time to contemplate and understand what had happened. In fact, those first few days after my grandfather's death were the easiest as they were a distraction from the truth. Attend a wake, accept condolences, attend a funeral, accept more condolences, and then go home being too exhausted to have any further thoughts than “I want to go to bed”. It was the calm after the storm that hurt me in the long

Grief is like weather. Some days are cold, wet and stormy, while the other days are bright warm and sunny. Today like most days its storming. I lost my heart, my life, my boyfriend to five bullets 1,327 days ago. Not only have I lost all hope but I forgot how to love so deep. Experiencing the passing of my boyfriend was never easy. I knew the love was always true from all the wonderful times we had, to the phone calls, until the funeral. I knew he was always the one who had my back. Dealing with the death of my boyfriend Dante’ was never easy but his spirit presence helps to persevere though life daily challenges.

Death is a very hard issue for everyone. People respond to it differently especially if it is a person they loved. If the death of a person is a surprise to people it is even harder on them. It does not give them time to accept their death. A child’s death is very hard on any family. Seamus Heaney express how the death of someone affects people differently in the Mid-Term Break especially if it is a family member.

Take them to the King, they don’t have much to bring, their heart is torn in pieces, it’s their offering. (Franklin, Martin, 2012) The death of a loved one can spark a lot of emotions that is difficult to explain. This is felt by everybody and most times it can take years to begin healing when death has happened. Discussing death and being prepared for that moment is not what people want to do, but it is what we must do. Having the right thing to say at the right time can make a difference to a person in mourning. Grief is experienced in many ways through the five stages, grieving and the after

Reading this chapter cannot help me prepare, but instead it helps me understand the concept of death once it approached myself or a loved one. It is a difficult subject to think about. We all feel devastation, remorse and regret when we lose someone, the “I should of…. Could of…. Comes to mind and then the guilt felt that we did not do enough for or with them. When thinking of a loved one such as my mother, I often have death anxiety which is the fear and apprehension of death (Berk, 2007, pp 645). I lost my father some years back, which was the first loved one lost in my life, I did not know how to grieve properly so it took many years to accept it. I could not imagine losing my mother as I am closer to her than anyone else in my life. I make

In five-year duration, Jesmyn Ward, the author of Men We Raped, lost five people to accidents, life-to-drugs, suicide, and other poverty-related incidents. Dealing with loss motivated the author to begin asking questions. While writing about her personal experiences, Ward realizes the truth behind her miseries, which blows her away. "Most of the men in my life thought their stories, whether they were drug dealers or straight-laced, were worthy of being written about," Ward writes. "Then, I laughed it off. Now, as I write these stories, I see the truth of their claims" (Ward 12). The deaths of a brother and friends are apparently linked to the history of economic struggle and racism, which promoted drug addiction, as well as the dissolution of relationships and family. She believes that the answers to the incidents are so obvious and wonders why she was so blurred visualize. Jesmyn Ward was brought up in Mississippi in a life pervaded with poverty, and where men were noticeably absent. The author tells the story bravely while revisiting the agonies of losing a brother and friends. As the only member of her family who had the privilege of accessing higher education, Ward documents the parallels in the American world with the intimacy and objectivity. A brutal mainstream rendered beautifully, the memoir by Jesmyn Word will indeed sit contentedly alongside myriad masterpieces that address the issue of racism.

The loss of a loved one is a painful experience followed by a period of grief and mourning. Bereavement is an experience most individuals will endure at least once in their lives. For most people symptoms such as persistent yearning for the deceased, intense emotional pain, preoccupation with the deceased, and overwhelming sense of sadness only last for a period of 12 months or less before the symptoms begin to subside. For approximately 2.4%-4.8% of the population grief symptoms persist for more than 12 months. These symptoms begin to impair their social and/or occupation functioning (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). This is a condition known as complicated grief (CG), also referred to as prolonged grief, or persistent complex bereavement disorder (Bryant, 2014). The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition (DSM-5), includes CG in the Appendix entitled ‘conditions for further study’. CG was proposed as an adjustment disorder when the DSM-5 was being written. A multitude of research had been completed to prove this was a maladaptive response to a significant stressor in an individual’s life (Bryant, 2014). Unfortunately, the American Psychiatric Association did not believe there was a sufficient amount of evidence to prove this constituted a formal diagnosis (Bryant, 2014). Nevertheless, this topic remains a prevalent concern in our society. Researchers have started to identify certain risk factors as well as mechanisms that cause CG

Death of a loved one can be overwhelming. The world changes for those in grief. While some may be grateful that loved one is no longer suffering, countless others were not prepared for a family member or friend’s life to end. Maybe the death was sudden or sudden, the child died, nobody can prepare those left behind for the anguish of experiences. Grief often lies beyond words, beyond the simple explanation of of our conscious minds. It is in the unconscious, the mystery of life, that expression the deep wounds and traged of lossis found (Earl, 2007).

In spite of this painful occurrence happening to me at twenty-four years of age, emotions such as shock, anger, and guilt, came into play creating chaos. I rerun her death in my mind, yet unable to completely forget the sadness, similar to a synopsis. These feelings can be frightening and overwhelming; however I have learned how to cope and with the realization that life and death are phenomenal both intertwined. I speculate that when one passes on they continue to be

The loss of a loved one can be a difficult thing to bear. In modern culture if a mother loses a son, she might receive sympathy and comfort while she is grieving. This isn’t necessarily the case when it comes to self-mummification. Mummification is a ritual that not many people have much of a say in. A person is either mummified by the conditions they die in, or as part of a ceremony after death. However, what if I said there is a group of select Buddhist monks that were able to complete the mummification process… themselves? In northern Japan, there have been about a two dozen Buddhist monks whose bodies have been found mummified. Their deaths date between the 12th and early 20th centuries, but the practice of self-mummification dates farther back! In the following paragraphs, I will introduce the origins of this ritual, a detailed description of the practice itself, the function and significance, as well as several other fascinating points I came across during my research.

There are different kinds of loss that we as people experience throughout our lives. Some will experience a painful loss, a loss of your home or car. What matters is how we as human deals with loss, sometimes if the loss bad we might have to seek counseling or some type of help. When you go through a loss it can either teach you or hurt you. However my 23 years of life I have experienced some really bad deaths and losses. The losses I experienced had nothing to do with me, but when u watch your family go through the loss it really open up your eyes about life. In this paper I would discuss one death and two losses that I experienced.

The article states that mouring and grief are experienced by everyone no matter where one comes from. It also said that mourning is the response to some illness of someone , death of a family member , friend , animal or someone close to an individual .(Axelrod, 1969).