...endure such a heavy loss, for some it is indeed a tough period to get through. No matter what kind of person the sufferer is, a few words of sympathy from close ones are always comforting. With the knowledge that there is someone who shares the grief, and is there for support in such trying times, indeed gives the sufferer the strength and courage to pull through. For most of you, deciding what to say when a person loses her/his mother is difficult, because it is an extremely sensitive time and you don't want to say anything that will deepen the grief of the sufferer. As such, you may take a look at these words of sympathy that may help ease the pain arising from the loss of such an important figure in one's life, and utilize them to make your close one, who is grieving the loss of her/his mother, feel comforted. Words of Condolence For the Loss of a Mother No words of condolence you put together can heal a person grieving the loss of her/his mother. But it can definitely provide a small amount of comfort, in knowing that someone is there to share the grief and to be there when needed. This gives them courage to move on and face each day with a little more strength. Use any of these sympathy sayings, phrases, poems, and simple words of sympathy, as condolences for your loved one. • Say not, in grief, that your mother has gone, but always remain thankful that she was yours. • Words, however kind, can't mend your heartache, but those who care and share your loss with you...
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...Stages of Grief Paper Grand Canyon University Death, Dying, and Grief HLT-310V Gary Shields August 22, 2015 Stages of Grief Paper Grief is explained as a response to a loss. This loss is connected to the attachment to someone or something that bonded to an individual in an emotional way. In a book called Lament for a Son, the author is the father who suffered and experienced tremendous grief after the loss of his son Eric. He explains and expresses his frustrations with death, the sorrow he felt, the yearning he had for his son, and many other emotions felt in grief. There are many references to God and His plan for salvation and death. The author published his experiences to help others with the loss of their child. He says that he tries to puts words to what they are feeling, even though there are no words that can truly explain the grief that is felt. (Wolterstorff, 1987) There are five stages of grief that individuals go through after a loss. The first stage that is experienced is denial. Kubler-Ross explains this stage as able to endure the loss. Shock and denial overcome the person. There is a feeling of numbness and ponder of how they can move forward, and why would they go on. Denial helps with coping through these thought processes and make survival possible. The denial stage paces the feelings that occur with grief. This is considered nature’s way of allowing only as much as one can handle. When an individual begins to accept the reality of their loss, the...
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...List the comforts the men find in the village while they are guarding the supply depot. In the the village the soldiers find mattresses, eiderdowns, a mahogany bed, pigs, a nice kitchen, and vegetables. What does the ambulance driver do for Kropp and Paul that gives them a chance to survive? Why does Kropp consider suicide? The ambulance driver sticks an anti-tetanus needle into Kropp and Paul's chest to make sure that they survive. Kropp considers suicide because he does not want to live the rest of his life cripple. Why does Paul refuse to be chloroformed? How does Paul manage to get Kropp and himself shipped out on the same train? Paul does not want to be chloroformed because he does not want them to amputate his leg. Paul manages to...
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...remember her when she is gone. Then the following sestet rhyming CDDECE creates a shift in atmosphere, where she realizes the mortality of memory and would rather her love one be happy than mourn in the misery of her death. The fourteen lines altogether portray themes of love, fear, and death. With dark and sad undertones, the words “you” and “I” are used frequently showing that the poem is a dialogue speaking directly to a loved one. Throughout the poem she uses anaphora, such as repeating ‘remember’ at the beginning of several sentences. In the first line “Remember me when I am gone away”, she is speaking to someone in a direct form asking to be remembered when she is no longer here. Thus, the idea of separation is introduced here. At this point, we cannot tell if she is embarking on a journey, leaving a relationship behind or what calls for this separation between her and the person she is speaking to. Following, in the second line, “Gone away into the silent land”, the word ‘gone’ is used as a euphemism for death by using silent land as a metaphor for heaven. This imagery of heaven reveals the separation will be due to death, her own death, which rationalizes why she wants this person to remember her when she departs from earth to heaven. The colon at the end of the second line creates a strong pause, calling the attention of the reader to the third line, “When you can no more hold me by the hand”. She raises awareness that there will be no more physical contact when she is gone...
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... Physician assisted suicide is a very controversial subject in today's society. Physician assisted suicide is when one voluntarily makes the decision to end life due to a terminal illness. In my opinion, physician assisted suicide is not ethical because; many people feel taking of a life is morally wrong, it shows no respect for humanity, and it takes ones dignity away. Physician assisted suicide and Euthanasia exist and neither are morally correct. Nothing about ending one's life is ethically right. An act as such would be considered an act od virtue ethics. "Virtue ethics is distinct from both utilitarianism and deontology. Rather than focusing on the consequences of the act we wish to evaluate or the rule that guides the action, we look at the character of the person performing the act."(Mosser, 2010) Each having the same outcome but still different, physician assisted suicide is when a physician gives the patient means to commit suicide but not administering it personally.Euthanasia is a lethal dosage of medicine administered by a physician. (Gula,1999a) This process is called death by mercy but some see it as murder. Death is a natural part of living. Death is something that occurs somewhere every second of the day, it should be from natural cause or accidental never should it be doctor promoted . When people become ill it is the physician they put trust in for the care they need to survive the illness they have become...
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...Ahmad Ibrahim English 103 David Overly, Ph.D. July 23, 2014 Paper #2 The poem “To an Athlete Dying Young” is about a young athlete from a small town who represents for his town and people by winning a footrace. The athlete is being cheered on and praised for the accomplishments he has done for his fans and town but at the end of the race the athlete has no idea what’s in store for him as soon as he reaches the finish line, sudden death. The young athlete is dead and his people are devastated after they have witnessed glory and fame cut short. Ironically A.E Housman doesn’t laminate the athlete’s sad death nor does he acknowledge it in a negative way instead Housman talks about the perks of dying at young age after accomplishing something glorifying. Bob Marley, the first superstar celebrity to sell more than 20 million records throughout his career. In 1963 Bob and his friends have formed the Wailing Wailers and in 1972 the Wailers came up strong by signing a contract with Island Records. Bob Marley has helped introduced the world with reggae music and until this day he remains one of the most beloved artist his fame has not died nor did his music because of the impact he has made to music listeners. Bob was almost assassinated in 1976 back in Jamaica due to his political beliefs; he was attacked while on stage by a group of gun-men luckily he was struck on his biceps but his wife Rita was shot on the head, Bob continued his show but even more motivated. In 1981 Bob...
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...up a bed if you’re stopping’ presents the awkwardness and exemplifies the struggle men had to face when they came back home, showing that it wasn’t as easy as expected. Furthermore the use of ‘if’ makes Weir’s father sound even distant like it is a burden for him to stop and that it is an inconvenience for him to be back home. This makes the reader feel incredibly uncomfortable as we have read the men in action and have connected with separate characters in an emotional way. So to see the men being treated unjustly for what they are doing makes the reader feel just as uncomfortable as the conversations between Weir and his father. However this is not an unusual thing, as many of the soldiers were neither celebrated nor got the recognition they deserved from fighting at war. The awkwardness is furthermore highlighted when Weir himself ‘could think of nothing to say’ to his father. The lack of colloquialism used between these two characters, connotes the experience and horrors men faced at war and how they have been sculpted into his mind. Whereas his father is very dismissive and oblivious to what his son is doing. This is further emphasised by the argument that unfold between father and son. ‘No it’s been worse’. ‘Worse than what? Worse than it says?’ ‘No it not that. Its....I don’t know’. The callous accusation’s from his father establishes the compassion that Weir was shown when he returned home. This shows to the reader that the men returning to the Home Front was...
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...Analyzing Characterization In As I Lay Dying In William Faulkner’s, As I Lay Dying, characters create themselves through their narrations of the event of their Addie’s death. The novel relies on characters for narration and own character development. In a way, the characters expose themselves in the novels and the novel becomes a form of “reflective characterization.” The narrations give insight to the characters personality by the syntax, imagery, stream of consciousness they employ. Often each narrative also offers a different perspective of another character or affirms the self-characterization of another character. Darl, who narrates most of the story, seems to be the most cerebral character. Darl’s character is particularly interesting because he is indeed mad in some ways but yet he is also the healthiest and most realistic of all Bundrens. He has a strange sense of what’s going on like that of Benjamin Compsons in The Sound and the Fury. He senses Addie’s death even though he and Jewel were getting lumber at the time of her death. He also knew that Dewey Dell was pregnant and that Jewel was an illegitimate son. Dewey Dells narration also supports Darl’s psychic abilities. Like Benjamin, he has the ability to communicate without words. After going into the secret shade with Lafe, Dell realizes that Darl knows what she has done. “I saw Darl and he knew. He said he knew without the worlds like he told me that ma was going to die without words,” (page 26). In a moving scene (page...
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...that causes pain even though the reason of these occurrences that happen to us cannot be known. When Bad Things Happen to Good People is a book in which the author Harold S. Kushner asks the question: why God? When his son is diagnosed with a degenerative disease Kushner cannot understand why such an act of pain is happening to him and his family: “People try to make sense of the world suffering by assuming that we deserve what we get. That our misfortunes come as punishment for our sins” (Kushner, 1995, 12) can this statement make sense? How can it? Kusher is a rabbi, and helps others through their difficult times, listening to people confess the pain that they are feeling. Kusher is one of God's holy followers, so how can this statement explain the loss of his son and the feeling of emptiness in his heart that may never be filled. Spiritually, one would like to believe that religion can be a form of comfort in a situation of suffering, but questions emerge, such as how can there be a kind and loving God who is responsible for the bad things that happen to people. This forces us to question the power of God. (Kushner 1995, 34) “They all assume God is the cause of our suffering and we try to understand why God would want us to suffer.” This is evidence that confirms my previous statement about a person trying to find the reason for suffering in God. One has two options in answers when questioning the power of God. People can either continue to believe that they have sinned, and...
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...and how to cure them. A stranger asks her to go to a far away land where her help is needed to help people who are dying. She is concerned about going because she is afraid of stepping outside her small town and her comfort zone. While traveling she encounters those who are trying to stop her, becomes unsure about her ability to help and becomes sick herself and does not understand what she is suffering from. In the end she is able to help those in need and bring back valuable information to help others in her small town and elsewhere. RUNNING HEAD: SHORT STORY 3 Short Story Helping those who can’t help themselves is so much a part of me now; it’s hard to recall just when it started. As kids, Caitlin Morse and I would play hospital for hours on end. Each and every blond haired, blue eyed baby doll as well as each cuddly teddy bear had been bandaged, operated on and cured of every imaginable disease by the time we were 12. Caitlin went on to marry a doctor and I chose to become one. I often wonder if following her path would have been easier. Choosing a path in medicine is not easy. There are those who chose the path that provided wealth while expending very little time while others chose to do something they love regardless of the monetary reward. When I reached the point in medical school where I had to make that decision, like other things in life, the...
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...This class, and the opportunity to further study the Book of Mormon in depth, has truly strengthened my testimony of Jesus Christ and his atoning sacrifice. I feel that I have come closer to the Savior by learning more in depth about him and his atoning sacrifice in the Book of Mormon. I am so grateful for the opportunity to reflect on the eternal aspects of the atonement, the blessings that flow from Christ’s infinite sacrifice, and what it means to me in my life right now. In Alma 34, verse 10, Alma testifies that, “it is expedient that there should be a great and last sacrifice; yea, not a sacrifice of man, neither of beast, neither of any manner of fowl; for it shall not be a human sacrifice; but it must be an infinite and eternal sacrifice.” The atonement is infinite in every aspect. It is infinite in time because it covers all the sins from the premortal world throughout all of eternity, when Christ suffered in Gethsemane, he suffered for every being who had ever lived and who would ever live. Elder Nelson once said, “the mercy of the Atonement extends not only to an infinite number of people but also to an infinite number of worlds created by Him.” The are no boundaries or limits to the Savior’s...
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...Have you ever walked into a library and just sat there? The books in a library give off a feeling of comfort and safety. Their scent gives a sense of exciting mysteries, exotic places and extreme adventures. In all my fifteen years, I have only stepped on a plane once, but I have traveled the world over in my imagination. Through books, I have explored dark caves, deep oceans, and high mountains; experiencing thrills that most people will never experience. A book’s golden pages have the ability to take all who are willing to go to far away and forgotten places. I could not imagine a life without books, until one day I chanced upon a book written by a well known science fiction novelist, Ray Bradbury. He tells of a dark, miserable world. A world where firemen, no longer protect and put out fires, but burn the only treasure the world has left, books. People loathe books. Books are useless and empty. The few people that understand the importance of the books are either locked away by the firemen, or can’t understand anything that is written in the books that may have survived. In fact, Beatty, the fire chief, tells the main character this about books: “… I have read a few in my time, to know what I was about, and the books say nothing! Nothing you can teach about or believe. … You come away lost” (Bradbury 62). In this shadow of a world, people’s minds are constantly being numbed by meaningless commercials and television that lack plot, substance, and morals. The society replaces...
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...ANNE BRADSTREET 1. What does Bradstreet’s poetry reveal about Puritan ideas of the proper role of women? Note how, in writing her poetry, she both rejects and accepts (Prologue stanza 7) John Winthrop’s standards for women as he revealed them – first, in describing Mrs. Hopkins’s failure to attend “to such things as belong to women” and, second, in his “Speech to the General Court” (“The Woman’s own choice”). The puritans believed that women should not have the right to voice their opinion. The husbands were the ones who made the decisions in the household and not the women. The women played the role of being home doing house work and taking care of the kids. In John Winthrop’s writing, he says, “he is her lord, and she is to be subject to him” (Winthrop 76). Therefore, men are the dominant where the...
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...Review 1) Write a paper (1,250-1,500 words) that describes how to use the method of ethical decision making: a) What are the dimensions of the ethical dilemma? b) What are the issues? c) Apply the four core ethical principles and the process of ethical decision making. There are many complex ethical issues that can affect patients and families in the health care setting. One of which is end of life care. Decision making in terminal care is a demanding and stressful duty for all involved that can take place in any setting in which patients die in hospitals, nursing homes, hospices, and at home. For people reaching and the end of life, continuing to suffer may appear worse than death. The suffering can be so great that the option of ending one’s life through either euthanasia or physician assisted suicide may appear to be a reasonable and merciful choice. “Euthanasia is an act where a third party, usually implied to be a physician, terminates the life of a person; either passively or actively. 14 Euthanasia is also defined as “the mercy killing of the hopelessly ill, injured or incapacitated.” (Athar, 2006). Active euthanasia requires performing some action that terminates the life of a person. An example of an active euthanasia intervention would be a situation where a physician would inject a patient with a lethal dose of a drug.14 In cases of voluntary, active euthanasia, a competent patient who wishes to avoid suffering and a slow dying process asks a physician to terminate...
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...won’t be pulled out and thrown away after a certain period of time. She also wanted it to be far and unfamiliar, for she remembered from her childhood, a time, when flood came and she saw broken coffins floating along with pieces of rags and hairs of the dead in the courtyard of her house. Nevertheless, this story is not just about a typical old woman who desires a perfect funeral. It is about the conflict present in human nature- cowardice versus confidence, past versus present and future. Maria was living in the Catalonia for over fifty years already, but she “knew no one in the building” except for a couple residing at the building opposite hers. “Knew no one” suggests that Maria does not like to interact with strangers. Only in the latter part of the story, when a “stranger” gave her a ride home, did she learn how to entertain “strangers”. Though it might seem ironic, that Maria, who seems to be unashamed of her job in her past life, exclaiming “I am a whore, my boy” , was actually too coward to step out of her comfort zone, but confident in staying in her past life. What could be hindering her from accepting new acquaintances? Wallowing on the past is Maria’s struggle. Maria was not taken seriously before, for she “lived in Catalonia for over fifty years”, but was shocked to, for the first time, have someone (funeral salesman) come to an appointment with her “on time”. She was taken for granted. She also felt...
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