Card Art

I find some cards on the internet that had a death theme to them. They are called Cards of Life and Death. I like how they were done. They were created by the artist Kornel Ravadits from Budapest Hungary . I'm only going to put up four of them right now. I put the other four up later.

Five Stages of Dying

Some days ago, we talked about the five stage of adying that a person goes through when he or she is dying from our textbook. These stages were outlined by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in her book On Death and Dying (1969).

First stage, Denial: the patient attempts to deny that the condition is fatal. This is a period of shock and disbelief.
Second stage, Anger: The patient may vent anger at a number of individuals---at the physician for not doing enough, at relatives for outliving. They are looking for a scapegoat.
Third stage, Bargaining: my include promises to God in exchange for an extension of life, following by the wish for a few days without pain or physical discomfort. The promise is rarely kept.
Fourth stage, Depression: the patient begins to realize that a mistake was not made, and the prognosis is not good. The patient realizes that meaningful things of life will be lost as death approaches. They become sad.
Fifth stage, Acceptance: the patient accepts death as a sure outcome. The patients is not happy but he or she has accept it.

Her five stages do have critics. One reason is that not all patients go through the stages in the order she said they will. While we was reading the stages I started to think do the people around the dying patients go through the same stages too. I ask this because when my aunt died I believe I went through about two or three of those stages myself.

Death "Causes" Death?

When I hear this, I wonder does it really happen? I have never seen a person die just because another person had die. Sure I seen it on television or read it in books but I have never seen somebody I know did this. So, I wonder do it really happens? Some classmates in my Death and Dying class have said they have seen it. As I am write this I start to wonder do I really want to know if this can happen. It just be too sad to see a person die like that, but there is that little voice in my head saying to me you still want to know. -__-

Personified Death

Soon in class we are going to talk about how young people personified death. How they represent death as a living person or some variation such as an angel, a skeleton, or etc. It is believe that only younger children would believe this but there are studies that the personification of death is present to some extent through all ages of people. Here are some examples of pictures that I think personified death:

The first drawing is from deviantART.com by Jarling-art call Mister Death and the second drawing is from Macky J. Gallego multiply.com page.

Good Death,tombstone,and Obituary

What would be a good Death for me?

I know everybody says this but a good death for me would be to just died in my sleep. I do not want to died in a exciting way. I would liked to just have a good time with my family or friends the day before and than pass on in my sleep from eating something bad.

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What would my tombstone say?

Here lie

______ _______

Beloved Daughter

and Sister

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My Obituary:

______ _______, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. _______ _______, was born in Florence County on August 5, 1986, in the Effingham Community. She departed this life on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at her home.

She recived her formal education at Dewey L. Carter elementary and South Florence High school, in Florence,SC. She was attending Francis Marion Univerity for her higher education. At a early age, she became a member of Pamplico Holy Church of Hyman,SC.

She leaves to cherish her fond memories: her mother and father:______ _____ and ______ _____;one brother and sister:______ ______ and ______ ______; grandparents: Mr. and Mrs.______ and Mrs.______ ______; and a host of uncles, aunts, other relatives and friends.