An Analysis Of Elisabeth Kublwer-Ross: The Fear Of Death

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Elisabeth Kublwer-Ross claims that through the year’s death is becoming a taboo topic. No one likes to talk about it and no one want to ever be around it, and she contributes that to a deep and ancient fear of death. She argues that children today in particular have been sheltered from death to the point of they cannot deal or even process death. That even on a subconscious level humans fear death and that the more we learn about death in a scientific matter the more it becomes terrifying. So it becomes very common today to just dismiss the thought of dying, but I think Elisabeth Kublwer-Ross has made a very point, by preserving a body are we ultimately leaving a soul unprepared for death.
In Elisabeth Kublwer-Ross recent work she has offered specific examples of how mankind is drifting from and avoiding death, simply because as humans we cannot deal with or cope with death and dying. Kublwer-Ross emphasizes that the way people today look at death is different than how it was viewed and coped with in the years past, especially in children. According to our author, children who are around death and allowed to morn with …show more content…

The farmer is allowed to stay in his own home and be with his family till his time to pass away comes. Surrounded by loved ones, children and friends. The patient that is rushed to the hospital is surrounded by unfamiliar surroundings, voices, noises, and his loved ones restricted to certain hours. The real difference between these two patients is one the soul is cared for and the other the body is the main concern. With every point Kublwer-Ross used in her argument she is trying to decipher if we are becoming more human or less, yet I think the argument is really are we as a race forgetting to prepare the dying soul as well as our own as we try harder and harder to stop death and preserve a

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