It's interesting that you mentioned when you interviewed both your mother and father that after hearing death they thought of after death and what may have happened to relatives that died. Through the assignments over break I also thought about after death and many of the people I interviewed including myself believe that if people had some place to look forward to after life they would not be so afraid of death. I do believe that people have different opinions about death based on their beliefs. I enjoyed reading this post.
To Megumi,
Your post was very interesting because I also agree that a social norm in our society is that funerals should be depressing but if everyone is going to die one day death should not be something we mourn. I have not decided how I want to die because it's difficult to decide if I would like to be cremated or donate my organs but hopefully by the end of this unit I will decide. A question I have for you is: Do you think religion is the only determining factor for the way we want to die?
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From Ben,
The broad variety of opinions that are in this post is what made this especially interesting for me. It seems like some of the people you interviewed made their decisions in large part based on their religion, where others did not. One of the quotes that inspired the most thought for me was, "Dying freaks me out more than dead bodies because while death can happen at any unpredictable time, I know eventually I'm going to end up dead." This seems to be the reason that I (and probably many others as well) do not think about care of the dead as much; the concept of death pretty much overshadows everything that comes after it, as far as human life is concerned. This is kind of unfortunate, because the way that cadavers are dealt with can be beneficial for many people. Your post did a great job getting me thinking, good job.
From Megumi,
I found these perspectives on caring for the dead were very interesting and thought-provacative. I also thought you did a good job analyzing these interviewees. One line I found insightful was, "...if people understood the promise of heaven and if they knew it was a place they would be going they would no longer be afraid about death." Though I don't have a clear opinon/belief around afterdeath and heaven I think this is one of the reasons why I fear death. If I had a certainty that nothing negative will happen when I die, than my fear wouldn't be that serious.
From Angela (Younger Reader),
I found these perspective for caring for dead were interesting.I liked that you read threw the interviewees. Nice Job. One line that I liked was the line that said"if people understood the promise of heaven and if they knew it was a place they would be going would no longer be afraid of death ."
From my Mom ,
I think it's interesting that you mentioned the fact that dead bodies are preserved by putting make up on the dead and trying to make them look as alive as possible. I wonder of in some way we are in denial about the whole thing and don't truly understand what death is. I believe that when you die, you die. Death is not something you should fear if you have some idea of where you are going but after death your physical body has no life. I really enjoyed this post.
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