Essays on Death

When my grandma passed away, it was like losing my best friend. My grandma deserved a healthier life than the one that was offered to her. She was a warrior and she was a fighter who is versatile, and she was the most beautiful individual I knew. She exudes grace and elegance, she made me feel loved….

Introduction The death of a loved one is something no one wish to ever experience. This irreversible loss of loved one can lead to grieving. People respond to loss in different ways due to their religious and cultural beliefs. The various characterisations of grief range from simplistic to complex grief. Grief can be defined as…

Mourning the loss of a loved one is a human experience that most people have experienced, but realizing this experience is shared by everyone does not make it any easier. The death of a celebrity is very similar because even though a person may have never met the celebrity, they still go through some sort…

A research study was conducted on religion, death attitude and belief in afterlife in the elderly by Marc Falkenhain and Paul J. Handal in 2003.The study indicated the relationship between religion, belief in afterlife and death attitudes (death acceptance and death anxiety) in elderly. Data was collected from 71 elderly participants through survey method. Results…

The Black Death is well known as one of the deadliest diseases. According to Haensch, “the Black Death killed tens of millions of people in Europe, leaving misery and devastation in its wake, with successive epidemics ravaging the continent until the 18th century” (par. 1). The Black Death began because of Yersinia pestis, bacteria from…

Witnessing death in a healthcare setting is a common aspect since some patients may have terminal illnesses that require care in a healthcare facility during their last days. One of these diseases is various types of cancer that cannot be cured and patients spent their last days at a hospital facility as cancer complications worsen…

Background of the Study Fear of death is one of the several subjects of numerous philosophers from ancient to contemporary period. Epicurus wrote, “[To] Become accustomed to the belief that death is nothing to us. For all good and evil consists in sensation, but death is deprivation of sensation. And therefore a right understanding that…

At the moment of conception in the womb to the moment of birth and afterward, the journey of life begins that has so many unknown probabilities and often mysterious in Nature. Just as anything else that has a start, life has to end in one way or another, and this may happen at any time….

How Death is presented in “Because I could not Stop For Death” “Because I could not stop for death” Is a 6 stanza poem with full rhyme and slant rhyme, and full of dashes between and at the end of lines. The obvious theme of this poem is death. So this analysis is going to be focusing…

Abstract Death is a part of life, which has continued to evolve along with society. In the past, death was a sudden process that occurred before young adulthood. However, the modern healthcare system has overcome early mortality from infections, and life expectancy has increased. Therefore, the time between diagnosis with a terminal illness and death…