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"To begin, it is necessary to pause for a moment and reflect on ones own attitude in relation to death and dying. ... Yet, even then, when death threatens us personally, or anyone for whom we hold great affection, the emotional component comes into play and the objective death becomes a very real and intense experience.
This presentation is intended to address the concept of death on three separate, yet connecting levels.
First of all, the inevitability of death, although intellectually known, meets with resistance and constant denial. ...
In summation, the object is to present an expanded awareness that offers new opportunities for addressing ones life and death with reason, dignity, compassion and a personal power that belies a seemingly helpless position.
Naturally, we resist death. ...
Furthermore, dont we get excited whenever we hear of, or personally observe miraculous remissions, returns from the brink of death, supernatural strengths and heroisms that challenge the human mind? Such experiences retold, awaken in most a sense that death can be circumvented, foiled or at the least, postponed by our willingness and determination to live, despite so called insurmountable odds. ... Death is conferred upon us as powerfully and unarguably, as life. ... For the most part we resist talking about it, generally refuse to plan for it, and quite
regularly avoid any conversations on the topic that refer to the burial process. ...
As parents, there is a powerful tendency to avoid the subject of a childs death. At the least, parents live in the juxtaposition of chronically fearing the death of their children, while denying to that same child that they, the parent will ever leave their child.
Nonetheless, death forces that move. ...
In aging too, the resistance to acknowledging death is still common, although there is a greater willingness on the part of the aged to discuss it. ... Perhaps declining strengths, energy, enthusiasm or interest in the future contributes to a willingness to address death. ... Even in hospitals, hospice workers will report that many families argue to the death, that the ill person will recover - often arguing it with the dying person.
Approximate Word count = 1734
Approximate Pages = 6.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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