Life After Death

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Term Paper Life After Death There comes a time in every person’s life when they have to deal with death and the loss of a loved one. It is a universal human experience that cannot be controlled. There is no right or wrong way on how to cope with death. Some deaths are expected and considered normal, such as losing a parent from the cause of a natural death like “old age”. Then there are other deaths that will happen that are not expected. Such as the death of a young child who passed from a cold that started as a small cough which then turned into pneumonia. Regardless of the type of loss, each experience can trigger the feeling of grief or better known as the process of bereavement or mourning. In fact, mourning and grief are usually understood to have the same meaning. This is an important topic to discuss since some people believe that there is a proper way to mourn and grieve. Using the proper research, this paper will provide answers on the many ways on how to deal with the death of a loved one. It will prove that there is no right way, but many different ways to go through the morning and bereavement process. There are many feelings that one feels during the grieving and morning process. Usually the first feeling after losing a loved one is severe depression. Guilt feelings are also common. Guilt may come from imaginary and irrational thinking. For example, a person might blame himself for the loss by making up reasons of why the person died. This can cause a heavy weight of sadness and depression, which can make the healing process take longer to get through. In Kübler-Ross’ book, On Death and Dying, she tells us that there are five stages of grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance. (Kübler-Ross) Each stage is broken down on why these actions happen during the grieving process. Denial is a conscious or unconscious refusal to
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