WEEK 7

WEEK 7:  Dying and Spirituality
According to Ecclesiastes there is plenty of time in both types of stages; spirit and death.  I think that you have your spirit the throughout the entire lifespan of your life, and death is the only time of life which is at the very end.  There are four types of death, clinical (when ones breathing or heart beat have stopped) this is typically at an older age.  Brain Death where the brain fails the human being and stops receiving oxygen for rather a long period of time 8-10 minutes where all electrical activity stops.  Biological death, which shares similarities to Clinical death, and brain death..  this occurs when the cells start dying from the lack of oxygen they are getting.  It is no longer than possible to get an electrical charge into the tissues of the heart and lungs and concludes a permanent end of all life functions to the body.  Social Death, this is simply where a person is treated as dead although the person is still biologically alive.  This usually happens to a patient that is sick or very much so near death.  

Reading about the four types of death were very interesting as I honestly thought that there was only one type of death.  Dead.  It does make a lot of sense to have an accurate name for each type of death after reading the description of each.

Grief is a big portion of this chapter because this is how one copes with death.  Grief includes the feelings of, "anxiety, despair, sadness, and loneliness." (page 284 LIFEMSART, Fiore)  There are different ways people deal with grief as discussed in this chapter.  I feel that these two were combined into one chapter before the simple cause and effect stages of death; someone passes away, and you find a way to cope with your feelings (grief).  This is something everyone should recognize when having a death that is/isn't close to them.

Like death there are various types of grief.  Unresolved grief, delayed, distorted, and complicated.  I think my stages of grief are very similar to Kubler-Ross's Stages also given a visual on page 288 of our text.  There are five stages of grief. 1.Denial 2. Anger 3. Bargaining 4. Depression 5. Acceptance.  Sadly everyone goes through a death in their life and all experience grief, but I don't think all go through these exact stages in this exact order.  Some may very experiencing some feelings before others. 

Spiritually includes all types of things into consideration one being he influence of gender.  I think I agree mostly with Jung's Theory because it makes all the sense how he views the spiritual concept.  According to age; The first half of life where you are developing, The second half of life where the goal of human development is the opposite of the first and turns to the middle of the stage.  

The last part I would like to discuss from this chapter was "If I had my life to live Over" basically do you have regrets and would you want to relive life, and do things over?  I wouldn't I would do things different but I wouldn't want to start over.  I think the choices I have made good or bad through out life have gotten me to where I am today.  I found the poems by the retired very deep and moving to living life to the fullest, so when death does come there are no regrets and you had much success in a long or short life.