Painful Lesson of Death (Essay Sample)

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Painful Lesson of Death
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PAINFUL LESSON OF DEATH
Merely two things corroborate in human life. That is life and death. While people are afflicted by life in more circumstances, death is eccentric as every person encounters it but once and that closes the chapter of human life. Neither of them has come back to share with us story about death nor the feelings it takes about amusing, agonizing or just a long sleep. After death nothing comes apart from anniversaries and past memories for the living families, relatives and friends. Even those who near death were not in a place to talk about it since they have no experience.
Each and every person will die. Honestly, Non of the person born two centuries ago still kicking to date. It goes as far as biblical characters like Noah and Moses, who are written to have lived for hundred and hundred years, have also passed away hundred years ago. Knowing all this, why do people live like no death? Because they don’t know when it will happen, therefore denying it and finds no essence of talking about it till it comes.
Some people are certain they will die, after committing a serious crime that is punishable by death according to the law of their nations’. Still, there are
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those who face death despite being a good law-abiding citizen. They expect their demise than You and I after extensive or severe ailment, even with attention and good diet, the disease has developed to its last phase. The people perish of chronic diseases and other disease which progress over a prolonged period of time. Some even die quickly as a result of the accident, gun shots, fire, explosives.
The most disturbing moment is when someone learned the he is going to die, especially within a short span of time. In her book, "On Death and Dying," Elizabeth Kubler-Ross (Jan 9, 1997) identifies what is the most popularly accepted version of the stages of grief. She wrote that these are the phases of a person goes through in dealing with news of his imminent death. Most people disowning it, some negotiating while others depression (I don’t care anymore); Contrary, another person’s acceptance (I’m ready for whatever comes) Similarly, Dr. Bear, J. (1997) also wrote about a lesser known definition of the stages of grief. All these are greater in designating a sequence of mental states in response to death news.
PAINFUL LESSON OF DEATH
The panorama of death is spiteful and intimidating. It is even more painful to those how based their context of earthly living. Human minds are fixed to living forever, then finding minimal time to talk and discuss death, instead detached, elusive, displeasing suggestion to talk about death. Unlike Buddhists who believe that it is important to develop a true and constant a...