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Death is life’s greatest mystery, or should I even put death and life in the same sentence? Let me say, Death is the greatest mystery. It is claimed that one can never look directly at the sun nor at one’s own death. ... We find that the sun is understood as being the source of life in the natural order so death is becoming recognized as the total opposite underlying the life, vitality, and structure of social order. Death is the muse of our religions, philosophies, arts, and medical technologies. Although death sells newspapers and insurance policies, invigorates the plots of our television programs, and even powers our industries, everyone will have to face the real picture one day. Coping with death can be the hardest problem one can face.
Ideas about what constitutes death vary with different cultures and in different epochs. In Western societies, death has traditionally been seen as the departure of the soul from the body. In modern times, death has been thought to occur when the vital functions cease, which are breathing and circulation (Kearl‘s Guide to Sociological Thanatology. ... Even the concept of brain death has been challenged in recent years. In this view, the irreversible loss of brain activity is the sign that death has occurred. ... For some people this causes the serious problem of the fear of death and bereavement (Kearl‘s Guide to Sociological Thanatology. ... October 2001)
Fear of death, or thanotophobia, is one of the most universal fears, and may be the basis for many phobias. For example people who fear darkness, choking, suffocation, enclosed places, flying in an airplane, epidemics, having a heart attack, developing cancer or acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), indirectly fears death under the other feared circumstances (Doctor, 1998).
Approximate Word count = 1374
Approximate Pages = 5.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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