I feel that the society we live is death denying for many reasons. Some of these reasons include the fact that we put up more of a fight with fatal diseases, not accepting the fact that they will soon die. Other reasons we, as a community, are death denying would be because now-a-days, younger people are passing away, due to problems as in wreckless driving, addiction to drugs, and abuse of alcohol. Because of this fact, most people do go through a denial stage when a realative or friend passes. As a civilization, I do believe that we are all death denying.
I agree. Society offers so many materialistic things and encourages the pursuit of riches that we fail to realize that we will not take these worldly items with us once we die. Even in day to day conversations we try to avoid the subject of death. As if by ignoring the topic it will simply go away or never happen.
Yes I agree that people try to avoid the subject of death. The time I have been working as a health care provider, I have noticed how some family members can not and would refuse to accept the fact that their love one is gone. I think one of the reasons society is in denial is because of all the technology and how every year science is improving and coming up with new cures to diseases and illness. Nothing wrong with the great job they do and how their studies have been able to save a lot of lives, but it puts some people to believe that everything is possible and that death is something that could be fixable…
There comes a point in our lives that death is going to knock at our doors. Whether, we want to die or not we don't have a choice. I agree society is denying death. Society needs to accept the fact that we are all going to die and there is no way out.
Yes i do believe that we are a society that is death denying because it is only natural for us as human beings to cling to this idea in defense. We live out our lives in arrogance deceiving ourselves to avoid the inevitable truth, which is death can come for us at any given moment and that realization scares alot of people into the state of mind of denial. Even with advances in modern medicine, death remains as a natural phenomena that occurs to all of us and cannot be controlled, manipulated or predicted. We live a delicate life that can be taken away far easier than given onto, and we are limited with the time we share in our lifetimes. So i truly believe that we must cherish every moment as a gift not deny a quality that allows us to appreciate it more because it is limited.
I also agree that we are death denying. We certainly don't embrace it. There are so many products out now to prevent signs of aging, and make you look young, and allow you to hold onto youth and pretend that death will never come. Medicine and technology, as well, makes it seem as if we can live forever. People don't like shattering their illusion of immortality by discussion death openly.
Yes, I feel that we do live in a society that is is death denying. We live in a time where people are too busy and worry about other things such as money. People never take death into consideration with the assumption that their time will never come.
I do believe as a society we are death denying because every other minute we see anti-aging/anti-wrinkle products being advertised. Cosmetic surgery is very popular among all ages and genders now to appear younger. Everyone in our society is trying to figure out how they can stay young and youthful long as long as possible. In other cultures, aging is a sign of wisdom and it is embraced. I feel like in our society aging and death is almost feared. However, aging and death is inevitable. We are all going to become elderly and die one day.
Death is an individual experience. Cultural perspectives can shape ones ideas about death, but we are not confined to these ideas. There are a variety of factors that influence a person's experience with the event of death. A person's relationship with the deceased, age of the deceased, and cause of death are contributing factors. That said, it is difficult to generalize our society's denial or acceptance of death. Each person is different; as is death.
I do believe that our society is death denying for many reasons. first being that we all know the diseases that kill us such as cancers, and heart diseases yet we still tan, smoke, eat poorly, don't exercise etc as if it wont happen to us. Instead we try to find products that will keep us healthy or make us look younger and try and reverse the damage that we are doing to ourselves. Also i believe that society has a hard time dealing with death many people do not like to talk about this subject. We don't want to talk about when we do leave this earth how and what we want at our funerals and how we would like to go and what our last wishes may be as if it will never happen to us.
I do believe that our society is death denying for many reasons. first being that we all know the diseases that kill us such as cancers, and heart diseases yet we still tan, smoke, eat poorly, don't exercise etc as if it wont happen to us. Instead we try to find products that will keep us healthy or make us look younger and try and reverse the damage that we are doing to ourselves. Also i believe that society has a hard time dealing with death many people do not like to talk about this subject. We don't want to talk about when we do leave this earth how and what we want at our funerals and how we would like to go and what our last wishes may be as if it will never happen to us.
The U.S. Troops Causalities in this year 2010 is 4,427 Us troops, 98% male. 91% were non-officers, 82% active duty, 11% national guard; 74% were Caucasian, 9% African Americans 11% Latino. 9% of the soldiers were killed by none hostile causes.
There are a lot of violent news now at days. A couple of weeks ago I heard on the Spanish radio station about a woman who killed her newborn baby. The woman put the baby inside a washing machine along with the clothe that she was washing g. The woman claims that she did not know that the baby was inside the bundle of clothes. She states that she noticed it later because she couldn’t find the baby
I feel that the society we live is death denying for many reasons. Some of these reasons include the fact that we put up more of a fight with fatal diseases, not accepting the fact that they will soon die. Other reasons we, as a community, are death denying would be because now-a-days, younger people are passing away, due to problems as in wreckless driving, addiction to drugs, and abuse of alcohol. Because of this fact, most people do go through a denial stage when a realative or friend passes. As a civilization, I do believe that we are all death denying.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Society offers so many materialistic things and encourages the pursuit of riches that we fail to realize that we will not take these worldly items with us once we die. Even in day to day conversations we try to avoid the subject of death. As if by ignoring the topic it will simply go away or never happen.
ReplyDeleteYes I agree that people try to avoid the subject of death. The time I have been working as a health care provider, I have noticed how some family members can not and would refuse to accept the fact that their love one is gone. I think one of the reasons society is in denial is because of all the technology and how every year science is improving and coming up with new cures to diseases and illness. Nothing wrong with the great job they do and how their studies have been able to save a lot of lives, but it puts some people to believe that everything is possible and that death is something that could be fixable…
ReplyDeleteThere comes a point in our lives that death is going to knock at our doors. Whether, we want to die or not we don't have a choice. I agree society is denying death. Society needs to accept the fact that we are all going to die and there is no way out.
ReplyDeleteYes i do believe that we are a society that is death denying because it is only natural for us as human beings to cling to this idea in defense. We live out our lives in arrogance deceiving ourselves to avoid the inevitable truth, which is death can come for us at any given moment and that realization scares alot of people into the state of mind of denial. Even with advances in modern medicine, death remains as a natural phenomena that occurs to all of us and cannot be controlled, manipulated or predicted. We live a delicate life that can be taken away far easier than given onto, and we are limited with the time we share in our lifetimes. So i truly believe that we must cherish every moment as a gift not deny a quality that allows us to appreciate it more because it is limited.
ReplyDeleteI also agree that we are death denying. We certainly don't embrace it. There are so many products out now to prevent signs of aging, and make you look young, and allow you to hold onto youth and pretend that death will never come. Medicine and technology, as well, makes it seem as if we can live forever. People don't like shattering their illusion of immortality by discussion death openly.
ReplyDeleteYes, I feel that we do live in a society that is is death denying. We live in a time where people are too busy and worry about other things such as money. People never take death into
ReplyDeleteconsideration with the assumption that their time will never come.
I do believe as a society we are death denying because every other minute we see anti-aging/anti-wrinkle products being advertised. Cosmetic surgery is very popular among all ages and genders now to appear younger. Everyone in our society is trying to figure out how they can stay young and youthful long as long as possible. In other cultures, aging is a sign of wisdom and it is embraced. I feel like in our society aging and death is almost feared. However, aging and death is inevitable. We are all going to become elderly and die one day.
ReplyDeleteDeath is an individual experience. Cultural perspectives can shape ones ideas about death, but we are not confined to these ideas. There are a variety of factors that influence a person's experience with the event of death. A person's relationship with the deceased, age of the deceased, and cause of death are contributing factors. That said, it is difficult to generalize our society's denial or acceptance of death. Each person is different; as is death.
ReplyDeleteI do believe that our society is death denying for many reasons. first being that we all know the diseases that kill us such as cancers, and heart diseases yet we still tan, smoke, eat poorly, don't exercise etc as if it wont happen to us. Instead we try to find products that will keep us healthy or make us look younger and try and reverse the damage that we are doing to ourselves. Also i believe that society has a hard time dealing with death many people do not like to talk about this subject. We don't want to talk about when we do leave this earth how and what we want at our funerals and how we would like to go and what our last wishes may be as if it will never happen to us.
ReplyDeleteI do believe that our society is death denying for many reasons. first being that we all know the diseases that kill us such as cancers, and heart diseases yet we still tan, smoke, eat poorly, don't exercise etc as if it wont happen to us. Instead we try to find products that will keep us healthy or make us look younger and try and reverse the damage that we are doing to ourselves. Also i believe that society has a hard time dealing with death many people do not like to talk about this subject. We don't want to talk about when we do leave this earth how and what we want at our funerals and how we would like to go and what our last wishes may be as if it will never happen to us.
ReplyDeleteThe U.S. Troops Causalities in this year 2010 is 4,427 Us troops, 98% male. 91% were non-officers, 82% active duty, 11% national guard; 74% were Caucasian, 9% African Americans 11% Latino. 9% of the soldiers were killed by none hostile causes.
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of violent news now at days. A couple of weeks ago I heard on the Spanish radio station about a woman who killed her newborn baby. The woman put the baby inside a washing machine along with the clothe that she was washing g. The woman claims that she did not know that the baby was inside the bundle of clothes. She states that she noticed it later because she couldn’t find the baby