...Loss and Finding Meaning and Purpose While dealing with death is never an easy process, knowing how to handle the grieving process could prove to be beneficial to you and those around you. How we deal with our loss will play our in various emotions. In this paper we will take a look at the emotion a person goes through when dealing with death, how a person deals with death in their own way, and finding the meaning and purpose of dealing with grief. Death is never an easy subject to approach. When a person loses a loved one, various emotions come into factor. These emotions trigger feelings which otherwise would not be compromised under normal circumstances. However, the various emotions that a person deals with assist them in the mourning process. There are different stages of emotions a person deals with after having lost a loved one. It is perfectly normal to have experience these emotions and should go through each stage of these emotions. It is believed the common stages of coping with death are as follow: shock and disbelief, sadness, guilt, anger, fear and physical symptoms (Smith & Segal, 2014, p. 1). According to the article done by M. Smith and J. Segal; these emotions are onset early stages in the grieving process. They also stated it might feel like you are going crazy or in a bad dream. They went on to state you might even question your religion and beliefs. Just how does our emotion assist us when going through a death of a love one? The feelings we as humans...
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...Bethany Gavins A&P Mr. Schroeder My Sister’s Keeper When an individual is affected by an illness and death, the people that know the individual, usually the family, are affected, too. In My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult, Kate Fitzgerald is diagnosed with Leukemia, which affects every member of her family. The Kubler-Ross’ cycle of denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance explains how each family member deals with Kate’s death and grief. Each member has a different way of dealing with Kate’s death. A chronic illness doesn’t affect just the person who has it, but also the people around the person. The Fitzgerald’s are all devastated and are full of grief throughout Kate’s struggle and death from Leukemia. The main character, Anna Fitzgerald, shows her acceptance of the Kubler-Ross cycle. Anna hates to admit that her sister will die regardless of what the family tries to do. Therefore, she tries to save herself and Kate from any more suffering by gaining legal rights to do what she wants to do with her body despite what her parents tell her. Anna knows that her parents, especially her mother, Sara, will go to any extremes to make Kate win the battle against cancer or at least live longer. Anna feels like winning the case will make her parents realize that Anna, too, has a right to live a normal life with a normal childhood. She’s accepted that Kate will soon die and doesn’t want to see Kate suffer any longer. Anna also feels that she’s doing Kate a favor...
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...bargain/negotiate with God to allow me to make it thru this situation or allow me to stay around long enough to make sure my family will be safe (Kubler-Ross, 2014). They become depressed and despondent giving up hope as well as all sense of positivity (Kubler-Ross, 2014). The last and final stage is acceptance of their fate. They have made peace with God and their inner circle, most importantly with themselves (Kubler-Ross, 2014). Although the Kubler-Ross model is a process for dealing with death, she original wrote it as stages dealing with any form of major personal loss (Larry Menkes). All cultures handle death differently, In Switzerland they accept death as a part of life. They compare it with birth, as a process and people are allowed to die at home surrounded by family and friends, instead of wasting away at a hospital as its done here in the United States. They focus more on the patient’s acceptance of what is going on with their emotional balance and less on high tech medicine. In Mexico death is also celebrated by the family and friends. There is a national holiday every year from October 31 thru November 2. It...
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...unhelpful to you in a time of loss • Your critique of this theory positive or negative I choose to do my grief theorist paper on Elisabeth Kubler Ross. Elisabeth Kubler Ross was born on July 8th, 1926 in Zurich Switzerland and died on August 24, 2004. Against the wishes of her father, Ms. Ross attended the University of Zurich: Medical School after she spent time volunteering at a refugee relief camp, during WWII, and visiting a Nazi death camp. There she realized that her true calling in life was psychiatry. She graduated in 1957 from the University and traveled to New York to continue her studies. In New York, she met and married, Emmanuel Ross, who happened to be a fellow medical student. In 1958, Kubler-Ross began her fellowship at Manhattan State Hospital, here she had her first encounter with terminally ill patients. Kubler-Ross bore witness to the poor, inhumane treatment of these patients. It appalled Ms. Ross and she was inspired to begin a workshop that focused on meeting the needs of those individuals who were dealing with terminal illness. The workshop, which she taught herself, helped medical students recognize the needs of these patients and the special care that they needed. After leaving New York in 1962, Kubler-Ross moved to Colorado to continue her psychiatric training at the University of Colorado: School of Medicine. A few years down the road, she was offered a position as an assistant professor in psychiatry at the Pritzker School of Medicine...
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...Lizzie’s death and Anna’s engagement forced Louisa to return to Concord. Granted Lizzie had fallen ill long before her death, it was not until they moved into Orchard House that Lizzie’s spirit weakened further. After gathering everyone around Lizzie’s bed, with her last work she “drifted into unconsciousness” (236). However, “Louisa saw a shadow fall across the face of her sister… she watched as light mist rose from the body, floated upward, and vanished into the air” (236). The image that left Louisa saw death as beautiful since it acted as “a liberator for Lizzie and a teacher for those left behind” (236). In addition, Louisa “averred that she did not miss Lizzie as much as she had expected” (238). The death of Lizzie did not bring Louisa as much pain as dealing with the departure of the people she loved....
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...Byron Colbert PSY-100 5/28/16 Kevin Salcido Elisabeth Kubler Ross was a psychiatrist and revolutionizes how people view death and dying. She would listen to dying patients a give them a public form. She came up with five stages of grief. They stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. These stages are used universally. In the first stage that I will discuss is denial. In this stage people may deny the reality of the situation by blocking out the words and hiding from the facts ("5 Stages of Loss & Grief | Psych Central," n.d.-a). For instance, someone could be diagnosed with some form of cancer. That person may not want to know because it might overwhelm them. So they would not want to know the reality of that situation. The second stage would be anger. When denial is no longer working, anger comes into play. People can express anger at a lot of things including themselves ("5 Stages of Loss & Grief | Psych Central," n.d.-b). For example, if someone died unexpectedly and you thought that you could have prevented that death, you could be angry with yourself for not doing all that you could. You could also direct your anger to anyone who could be blamed. The third stage is bargaining. In this stage a person has hope they could have avoided the cause of grief. Sometimes it could be negotiations for an extended life ("Kübler-Ross model explained," n.d.-a). It could be that someone got in a terrible accident and you might think you could have saved...
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...a deep sadness caused especially by someone’s death; trouble or annoyance. In today’s culture and society, when we hear this term, it is often associated with the passing of a loved one. Though a very familiar terminology in culture and society, it is sometimes known but rarely understood. When it comes to the loss of a loved one or someone special in a person’s life, how one deals with and recovers from that is called the bereavement process. The approach to death and grief can be widely vast in the way a person reacts or expresses their grief during their rough time. Both grief and bereavement encompass a range of feelings from deep sadness to anger, and the process of adapting to a significant loss can vary dramatically from one person to another, depending on his or her background, beliefs, relationships to what was lost, and other factors. Grief is associated with feelings of sadness, guilt, regret, anger and so many others. The thought process during the grief process can also be challenging and difficult and can also range in its expression. Thoughts can vary from “there’s nothing I can do about it” to “it’s all my fault.” Grieving behaviors can shift from crying to laughter, and from sharing feelings to engaging silently in acts such as writing or exercising. One of the biggest issues associated with coping with and facing death is the issue of the “how to?” How do people deal with death? How to face and cope with death and grief? Is there a right and wrong way to do...
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...Palliative care is defined as Palliative care nurses are at risk of work stress because their part includes contact to frequent deaths and family grieving. Based on the definition of Palliative care, one can recognize that palliative care nurses are prone to high levels of stress and burnout increased instances of stress and burnout. Palliative care nurses envisioned to develop the quality of life for both patients suffering a serious disease or at end of life and their families There are many causes of stress and loss among palliative care nurses: poor prognosis of the patient, complication of disease condition, dealing with death and dying, uncooperative patient and the family members. Palliative care nurses facing the above causes are disposed to high levels of stress and burnout. According to dealing with death and dying and dealing with uncooperative family members and patients have all been found to be stressors experienced by nurses. As mentioned in Palliative care nurses experience many stressors in their workplace that rise their stress levels and burnout. Stress can be viewed as The main stressors cause to the palliative care nurses providing end life care, Because they deal with advanced progressive disease, which is defined as The advanced progressive disease leads to death. states These causes’ stressors to palliative care...
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...Span Development A Topical Approach by Robert S. Feldman, grief is defined as the emotional response to one’s loss. Bereavement is defined as the acknowledgement of the objective fact that one has experienced a death. I really did not like the textbook’s definition of bereavement so I decided to look up the definition on dictionary.com and on that website it is defined as a period of mourning after a loss, especially after the death of a loved one. Grief and Bereavement can be dealt with in different ways. What I would like to talk about is differentiating unhealthy grief and normal grief, my experience with grief and bereavement with the loss of my aunt and my uncle, the ways people can deal with grief and bereavement, and how to overcome them....
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...corrupt which makes power in some people’s hands evil. However, not all people with power use it for evil and are not corrupt. * Drug dealing should not be a crime because it does not directly harm others or force them to harm themselves. The argument is the dealing of drugs is not forcing other to harm themselves or others this statement does have some validity because a drug dealers do not forcibly make the buyer take the drugs or the drug dealer does not force the buyer to harm others. This is a true statement. However, dealing drugs of any kind is breaking the law regardless if some people do not agree that it is a crime, it is a crime. * Lew Fairman is the best candidate for governor because he is in favor of the death Penalty. The argument is the best candidate for governor is Lew Fairman because he is in Favor of the death penalty. This statement is not true or valid. Lew Fairman is running For governor. His belief in the death penalty is a personal belief. This s belief does not give any proof that Lew Fairman will make a good governor. Anyone believing that Lew Fairman is the best candidate for governor is that person personal belief and does not make this statement true. This argument should read that Lew Fairman is a candidate for governor and believes in the death...
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...Case 2.1: Organizational Culture: Life or Death Organizational Behavior MNGT 5590 Summary of Organizational Culture: Life or Death Organizational Culture is a pattern of shared basic assumptions invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration that have worked well enough to be considered valid. Nevertheless, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think and feel in relation to those problems. Proceeding with Life or Death situation, individuals such as employees with the medical field, conduce to work with other employees where there is repetitive activities, strategies and rituals appearing on the job. Everyone must comprehend and know with certainty of their performance when dealing with Life or Death situations. Patients put their lives into the hands of these doctors, nurses, administrators, etc. It has been revealed that for employees to have success in the workplace is how closely an individual’s work habits match the culture in which different genders is employed. This case exemplifies success on the productivity and longevity. A research study was conducted on many top notch hospitals to see success of the hospitals that were involved in Life and Death aspects. The rapid, efficient and top quality treatment of heart attacks for survival consistently delivered therapy to restore blood flow to heart attack patients 90 min. or less, so researchers wanted...
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...older and one step closer to death. Biological, psychological, social and cultural factors can all affect the capacity for coping with death. Fry states that death is considered a natural part of life that disrupts life’s plans and can cause immense pain (1990). Often in religious communities death is welcomed as a better place than being here on earth. Individuals are encouraged to accept that death is a natural part of life and offer coping mechanisms to grieve. Younger individuals tend to see death as being far off into the future whereas an individual in late adulthood is experiencing the thought of death on a daily basis. As a young adult we live life in the fast lane and take many things for granted. Illness and disease can also affect how the aged cope with death. Suffering from cancer, heart disease and other serious disease can cause extreme fear of dying. If he or she is biologically unstable dealing with death may lead to an unhealthy acceptance of death or lead to one taking part in dangerous and risky behaviors. Ineffective coping skills can lead to emotions of depression, fatal illness and suicide. When death is sudden or unexpected people are not allowed the time to prepare mentally and can lead to feelings of loss and confusion. Losing a friend, spouse or loved due to murder, accident or war can make the process of grieving hard and difficult to accept. A death that is prolonged can also affect how an older adult copes with death and how close the adult was to...
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...Godfather Death From a young age most children have heard or read fables, not just for entertainment, but also for life lessons that their elders want them to know. Symbolism in fables is not only a great way to keep readers and listeners interested, but also to teach a lesson in a not so literal and harsh manner. Symbolism is used to state an underlying meaning in a story. Readers and listeners learn the lessons from the mistakes made by the protagonist of the work. There is always a lesson to be learned in a fable, the lesson may not be clearly stated but the symbolism of the work makes the reader realize the lesson that is being portrayed. Fables often have characters that aren’t human but possess human traits. The Grimm Brothers perfectly included symbolism in the short story “Godfather Death.” A father had a thirteenth child, who he could not afford because he was already so poor to begin with. Thirteen is an unlucky number in a lot of cultures. This shows the symbolism right in the beginning of the story. The father of the thirteenth child chose death to be the godfather of that child; he chose death because death does not discriminate between rich and poor, religion, or race. The father surpassed God as the godfather because he doesn’t disperse of wealth evenly. The father also denied the Devil to be the godfather because the devil tricks men and leads them astray from the right things in life. Death ends up taking everyone in the end, this symbolizes that death is fair...
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...Diabetes is a menace that continues to strangle the American population, both young and old, at an alarming rate. Type 2 Diabetes has proven to be the deadliest of the various types of diabetes; resulting in blindness, limb amputations as well as death. In this paper, we shall examine diabetes in general and provide the best possible solutions to the disease. Commentary and Possible Solutions To comment on the various reasons why diabetes is living with us and might for years to come, it is factual that obesity is what the American population ought to deal with in ending diabetes. It is as a result of the much lessened physical activities in our youth and elderly population that our people continue to gain weight unnecessarily. Being a lifestyle...
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...DEATH PENALTY Is the death penalty really the best way to deal with things? The death penalty has a lot of negatives to it like: costs money, it doesn’t decrease actual crime, it is just another word for revenge, and people can turn out to be wrongfully convicted. Also, it would be easy to just use the death penalty; the criminals would kind of be getting out of the punishment. Time is a more affective and a better solution when dealing with crime. The death penalty costs money on the states and the tax payers, in fact it costs around two million per case. That much money just to kill someone, is it even worth the price? The death penalty actually costs more than keeping prisoners locked up. The cost of the death penalty is just too much to put on the tax payers, they pay enough already. You would think that if the crime committers knew about that death penalty, that they would actually stop doing the crime. In all actuality, the death penalty has not shown any decrease in crime or murder rates. Putting the law up, really won’t change much at all, you can’t stop the criminals from doing what they want to do. "Retribution is just another word for revenge, and the desire for revenge is one of the lowest human emotions…” Even if you try to get rid of the evil, purposely killing is actually an evil-like action. Even if they were in the wrong as well, “two wrongs do not make a right.” The quote, “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,” is just another word for revenge. Revenge...
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