Illness & Dying is a very hard topic for everyone because we never want to lose people’s existence in our lives. I believe that when we die we go to a better place, which is heaven. I have never had any experiences with death besides when my grandmother and baby brother died but I believe I was too young to comprehend the extent of each situation. I am not as afraid of death as I was when I was younger, because now I have come to realize that everyone has the chance to live their lives, whether they use that time to fulfill a purpose or not, everyone has one life to live. Some people die young and some people die old but everyone is going to die one day, the most important thing is how we live our lives. Maybe even how we find happiness.
When I asked my mother about her experiences with Illness & Dying I could tell she didn’t want to talk about it. My mother expressed that she went through a traumatic time when her grandmother (my great-grandmother) died from lung cancer. She smoked a lot and as her difficulties worsened my mother had hoped things would get better. The death of her grandmother was a difficult situation to face, but she managed to get through it. A couple of years after that my baby brother was born on the couch at my grandmother’s house. We were devastated when we found out that my brother had died because he developed an infection. After all the deaths that my mom has faced she would rather not talk too much about them because it makes her sad. She also believes that when we die, we leave our earthly bodies and our souls depart for heaven.
Everyone handles death in different ways; we may approach death knowing that everyone has to die but the fear of when death will come leaves us questioning our existence. I do not believe that the fear of death should make people want to fulfill their lives and do everything they set out to do, but I believe that we are living in the now and we need to live our lives for the present.
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