Tweet it and weep. That is exactly what society does when it attempts to make sense of loss in 140 characters or less. Death is a difficult concept to grasp and social media plays a large role in how mourning and loss is perceived. Other media outlets like film and news also effect how humans deal with loss. The easy access to mass media allows people to comprehend and except the fate of a loved one. People’s grieving process is made easier through the wide variety of media platforms available to people today. The media has a power over humanity in the current day of age. No matter the time, death is always mentioned on national news or any other media outlets. Loss and grieving is a process that all humans will experience in their life. It …show more content…
Loss has a strong impact over any human. It creates an overpowering pain that is difficult to cope with. The ability to discuss and tell stories about the departed adds meaning to the death and can affect a person’s grieving process positively. The story telling keeps the person alive in a way and with that a new meaning of the life is brought up for the lost one. Death also grabs the attention of anyone that reads, listens, or watches any mass media coverage. Journalist dramatize the events to create a symbolic value of the death and creating a larger meaning of death (Pantti, Mervi, Sumiala). The portrayal death has, due to media, affects how the public understands the loss. The journalist in charge of the story can manipulate the language and dramatize the events that happened to allow the viewers or readers to feel sympathy towards the dead. With that knowledge, death can be made more tragic than what it really is, but still induces the pain that comes along with it. As loss continues to be brought up in the new in order to be qualified as a national tragedy in media, the victims must have symbolic value to …show more content…
The popular novel, Wild by Cheryl Strayed, conveys what it is like to lose someone who had great meaning in a person’s life. Cheryl loses her mother to cancer and after the loss her life fell to shambles. Her memoir about the ability to overcome loss and grief resonated with others so much it was adapted into a film. The message behind Cheryl’s journey to pull her self out of her grief inspired others. She told the truth and did not sugar coat the pain and suffering she was feeling. Cheryl is proof that life can get hard after loss, but getting out of the rabbit hole will make a person so much better. The movie demonstrates the hard ships people face with dealing with loss, but it allows others who are going through the same them to know they are not alone. When someone knows what it is like to grieve, it makes a person’s grieving process easier because they can relate to each other. In other movies and tv shows fictional cinematic scenes often engages the viewer and evokes emotion while bringing up questions about death (Field). Death is complicated to comprehend, but having popular resources exemplify what death is like allows humans to feel something. It lets others get a glimpse of their future and with that it may help ease the pain later on if they know what to expect. Since it is included in almost every film and show what does that say about
Reading this book has been interesting and heartbreaking experience. A Year of Magical Thinking, a journey through the grieving process. While dealing with the death of her husband, she is confronted with the sickness of her only child. This book touches me, and it makes me think of what would happen if my loved one died. This paper is a reflection of my thoughts and feelings about this woman’s journey that has been explored by book and video. I will also explore the author’s adjustment process, and how she views her changed self.
In her article, Quindlen delivers her position to the massive mixed audience of the New York Times, drawing in readers with an emotional and humanizing lure; opening up about her family life and the deaths she endured. Later presenting the loss of her brother's wife and motherless children, Quindlen use this moment to start the engine of her position. Quindlen uses her experiences coupled with other authority figures, such as, the poet Emily Dickenson, Sherwin Nuland, doctor and professor from Yale, author Hope Edelman, and the President. These testimonies all connect to the lasting effects of death on the living, grief. She comes full circle, returning to her recently deceased sister-in-law; begging t...
Loss and How We Cope We all deal with death in our lives, and that is why Michael Lassell’s “How to Watch Your Brother Die” resonates with so many readers. It confronts the struggles of dealing with death. Lassell writes the piece like a field guide, an instruction set for dealing with death, but the piece is much more complex than its surface appearance. It touches on ideas of acceptance, regret, and misunderstanding, to name a few. While many of us can identify with this story, I feel like the story I brought into the text has had a much deeper and profound impact.
It is common for those experiencing grief to deny the death altogether. Many people do this by avoiding situations and places that remind them of the deceased (Leming & Dickinson, 2016). However, by simply avoiding the topic of death and pain, the mourner only achieves temporary relief while in turn creating more permanent lasting agony (Rich, 2005). In this stage, mourners will begin to feel the full weight of the circumstance. Whether the death of a loved one was sudden or long-term, survivors will feel a full range of emotions, such as sadness, guilt, anger, frustration, hopelessness, or grief. While many of these emotions can cause serious suffering, it is important for the survivor to feel whatever emotions come up and deal with those feelings, rather than trying to suppress any
The way one person feels or how they react to a situation is very different for each person because no two brains are identical. Every person handles each situation in life different than the next person, which was made very apparent in Wild by Cheryl Strayed. In her book, she is very upfront with all her “coping skills” and does not apologize for what she did in order for her to “cope”. Strayed lost her mother at the age of 22, her whole world shattered around her. She ends up single handedly destroying anything that was good in her life, her husband, her career, even her degree. Cheryl Strayed is brave in the way she describes all of her misgivings without trying to make herself nobler than she is and without seeming as though she is ashamed.
Death and Grieving Imagine that the person you love most in the world dies. How would you cope with the loss? Death and grieving is an agonizing and inevitable part of life. No one is immune from death’s insidious and frigid grip. Individuals vary in their emotional reactions to loss.
Lossography is the concept that death can be meaningful based upon cultural values, traditions, and personal beliefs. There are many situations that pertain to the concept of Lossography one particular relation is death education. According to Lossography pertaining to students studies show that students tend to express the issues of death more elaborately through writing (Bolkan, 2015). This is an important aspect of Lossography due to the students being able to express how they feel about death, and be able to express their experiences and cultural beliefs pertaining to a loss loved one. According to the study the most frequent reported death is the loss of a grandparent; many students have encountered the loss of a grandparent at an early
dealt with and the individual moves on. Susan Philips and Lisa Carver explored this grieving
Grief in media rarely goes in depth and is often rush often with little consideration to how it impacts people 's everyday lives. This may be a reflection of how grief is viewed in our society. Collectively people are uncomfortable with death and talking about it publicly. We rather acknowledged it as little as possible. The movie “My girl” takes on the unique plotline of grief and loss. The movie, taking place in a funeral home, touches on both tangible and symbolic loss. These losses are represented in numerous instances throughout the movie within the character development of the main cast.
“I stood, unmoving, stunned… Tears filled my eyes. I want my mother, I thought. My mother is dead. I thought this every hour of every day for a very long time: I want my mother. My mother is dead.” In Cheryl Strayed memoir “Wild”, the death of her mother demolished her mental stability and consumed her each moment of her life. Not knowing how to handle her grief, Cheryl ended up doing things in her life that many people would consider regretful. She ended up losing her marriage, family, friends, became addicted to drugs, and lost her own state of being. Although Cheryl is sullen, her mistakes and setbacks was her destiny to create a better life.
Grieving is the outward expression of your loss. Every individual grief is likely to be expressed physically, emotionally, and psychologically. For instance, crying is a physical expression, while depression is a psychological expression. It is very important to allow the client to express these feelings. Often, death is a subject that is avoided, ignored or denied. At first it may be helpful
People cope with the loss of a loved one in many ways. For some, the experience may lead to personal growth, even though it is a difficult and trying time. There is no right way of coping with death. The way a person grieves depends on the personality of that person and the relationship with the person who has died. How a person copes with grief is affected by the person's cultural and religious background, coping skills, mental history, support systems, and the person's social and financial status.