Emily Herman
Hickman, Andrew
PHL 200
16 April, 2015
THANATOLOGY
Thanatology is a subject that most people do not talk about. To most people it is a subject to avoid because it can be a very sensitive topic to discuss. However, it is seen that there is more to the subject or death rather than just you live and you die. This is discussed in the article, Thanatology death science. In Thanatology death science, the article discusses how this subject looks more into how those who are dying react to death in order to be able to help others learn how to deal with this phenomenon themselves. It then goes on to discuss the two core concepts that it is considered to have that are helpful in comprehending the course of living and dying (Thanatology). The article then briefly touches on these two ideas, which are, “my death versus your death” and “partial death versus total extinction”, where people try to denote that although one person’s death is certain that my death could be different or be an exclusion from this and that by …show more content…
In this case, the Kubler-Ross model is examined in the view of using it to describe what one may deal with when facing an illness that is terminal (Thanatology). The article also states, that although most accept this concept of stages, they do not necessarily agree with how they are ordered because people can deal with the news of a terminal illness or with news of a loss rather differently (Thanatology). In certain cases people may follow the normal path of the stages going from denial to anger to bargaining to depression and eventually accepting the news, while others may accept the news and later come to be depressed and denial. The article then continues to mention that Thanatology also examines the attitudes people take toward death in order to fully understand certain questions