Often times we hear about suicide and so many thoughts comes to our head, thoughts like “was it really that hard or was the person going through so much? For some people they feel it 's something that should be done when you feel the world is against you while for others they are totally against it, their morals don 't accept it neither do they think it 's really that bad in life to take your own life or allow a physician assist you in committing suicide because of excruciating pain and depression, often times we tend to forget how hard it 's going to be for the loved ones trying to understand why the person chose to take his/her own life , suicide has increased over the years and it 's difficult to know the exact reason. According to Befrienders, …show more content…
(2000). No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One. New York, NY: Broadway Books
This book talked about a woman who lost her husband to suicide because he was unable to deal with the death of his mother. She lived life unable to explain the pain and difficulty she was going through and it was so hard for her to survive because she felt she was unable to say goodbye so she decided to interview 100 suicide survivors on the guilt, compassion and feelings of confusion and anger they went through so from her experience and also talking to other people, she decided to gradually gain solace and was able to helped thousands of people who have lost a partner to suicide.
This book just as the previously one allows those people who are in the same position to know that they are not alone and are not being ignored nor neglected and the trying to make sense of the situation they think is senseless would not help them in this case.
Baker, Kimberly. "Assisted Suicide Advocates Forget Hope a More Powerful Force Than Death." LifeNews.com. 2 Nov. 2010. Web. 30 Jan.
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The author tries to give her reasons morally, ethically and personally as suicide is a moral issue for some people. This article is important because it supports the point I’m trying to make on my final paper.
Conclusion It was really an interesting read to see how people grieve the death of their loved ones through suicide and thoughts on assisted suicide, most of the authors have something similar which is they have grieved the death of a loved one so they understand perfectly what it’s like trying to live life after a loved one just committed suicide, when someone commits suicide society or the grieving tend to focus on why it happened forgetting they have to move past the incident and live their life and try to console themselves. Reading these articles makes me believe I have an idea of how to finalize my paper but also still have few comments which I think some of the authors left out, sometimes grieving comes with the bond that you had with the person while they were alive, sometimes trying to tell people how they can grief especially after their loved ones have committed suicide is like forcing them they must move past it which I think it’s pretty difficult but it’s easier in these articles because the authors have something In
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...
Elisabeth Kubler and David Kessler have a hypothesis in which they have discovered the five stages of grief. Many people experiences grief in many different ways, but they usually follow the 5 stages of grief. In the novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly close they discuss the recent events of 9/11. Jonathan Safran Foer talks about grief through a nine year old's point of view about grief and the loss of his father. This novel was very real and personal it shows that type of human emotions you go through when you lose a family member, in this novel many people are able to go through the five stages of grief and it also shows how these characters are able to get through each death individually. Grief is one of the most powerful emotional forces
All through the times of the intense expectation, overwhelming sadness, and inspiring hope in this novel comes a feeling of relief in knowing that this family will make it through the wearisome times with triumph in their faces. The relationships that the mother shares with her children and parents are what save her from despair and ruin, and these relationships are the key to any and all families emerging from the depths of darkness into the fresh air of hope and happiness.
The critics who perceived this book's central theme to be teen-age angst miss the deep underlying theme of grief and bereavement. Ambrosio asks the question, "Is silence for a writer tantamount to suicide? Why does the wr...
Sakinofsky, I. (2007). The Aftermath of Suicide: Managing Survivors' Bereavement. Canadian Journal Of Psychiatry, 52129S-136S.
The emotional appeal can be felt on every sentence of the essay. Form this we can see the suffering faced by the writer. Even the first sentence of the article grabs the reader’s attention. It says,” The blood was like Jell-O. That is what blood gets like, after you die, before they tidy up” (Roberts). The words, blood, suicide, death are themselves filled with emotion which grabs reader’s attention to read the essay. Life is precious. We don’t have a second chance to live. We just live our life once and nobody sacrifices one’s life uselessly. Roberts effectively makes appeals to pathos throughout her essay. Her essay is full of emotionally charged words and phrases like death, suicide, motorcycle accident, abandonment and so on which create a sympathetic image. “Second-guessing is the devil’s game, for there are no answers and infinite questions. But it is an inevitable, inescapable refrain, like a bad song you can’t get out of your mind” (Roberts). This statement clearly supports her appeal to pathos because by the death of a loved one, we have all kinds of difficult emotions and it may feel like the pain and sadness will never go away. Her goal is to make reader feel sympathy for her by writing her personal experience of
I always looked at death as such a sad thing that is eventually going to occur to everyone. However, after reading this book, it made me realize death can actually be a beautiful thing. Death allows a person to go to a next life, one where they will be loved and others will be there for them. It was interesting to be able to read about stories that these hospice care workers witnessed themselves. I have experienced a few deaths within my life and I never coped with them very well. After reading this book, I honestly believe I will be able to look at the positive side of death and be able to deal with my emotions better. I can also help others surrounding me deal with a death that they are experiencing. This book was filled with information that I loved learning. For example, I never knew that a dying person can choose a time to die. The thought of this never occurred to me before. I always thought that when it was someone’s time to go, they had no choice. But, a dying person can “put off” passing on until they see a certain person or event that has great significance in their life. Nevertheless, there are still people who will wait to die until they’re all alone in the room. This book makes you think of real life situations and think what you would do in them. Taken as a whole, it was a very in depth book that changes the way you would naturally perceive
Velasquez, Manuel, Andre, Claire “Assisted Suicide A Right or Wrong.” Santa Clara university n.d. web 24 March 2012
My article, “Assisted Suicide: A Right or Wrong” by Claire Andre and Manuel Velasquez, discusses the importance of making assisted suicide something to consider when the patient is in pain and does not want to deal with the pain anymore. This article tells the very personal, detailed story of Matthew Donnelly and his time spent before he died. This article was written to open the eyes of people who are against assisted suicide to show them a case where the writers believe it would be acceptable to grant Donnelly’s wish and assisted him in ending his life. The purpose of this text is to be able to persuade the readers to see their point of view and hopefully get them to be for assisted suicide. The authors hope to achieve the well-assisted
Harned, Mary. “The Dangers of Assisted Suicide.” Defending Life. Americans United for Life, 3 April 2012. Web. 20 March 2014.
Suicide is the eleventh most common cause of death in the United States. According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, a person takes their own life once every fourteen minutes in the United States (American Foundation for Suicide Prevention [AFSP], 2011). Still, with suicide rates so high, suicide is a taboo topic in our society. Though suicide is intended to end one person’s pain, it causes an immeasurable amount of pain and suffering to loved ones close to the deceased.
The critical analysis of this project is ongoing. The results of the Pre- and Post-Test showed improvement in the participants both in awareness and acceptance of their grief. However, further study and analysis is necessary to determine the long-term effects both from the five-day session and subsequent counseling.
In ancient history suicide was condemned to be a morally wrong sin. Plato claimed that suicide was shameful and its perpetrators should be buried in unmarked graves. When the Christian Prohibition came into play a man by the name of St. Thomas Aquinas defended the prohibition on three grounds. These are that suicide is contrary to natural self-love, whose aim is to preserve us. Suicide injures the community of which the individual is a part of. Suicide ...
Suicide is a much bigger problem than society will admit; the causes, methods, and prevention need to be discussed more openly. Committing suicide probably sounds like a foreign idea to most people, but to the people who think about it, they deal with it every day. More importantly, the question is what leads people to kill themselves? In general, most people do not want to actually kill themselves, even though many people joke about it on a daily basis. Being human, we all have a certain amount of will to live.
Often times when I heard the word "suicidal" I was curiously caused the person to do it. Growing up, I heard that people decided to commit suicide was because they "wanted attention, they wanted the easy way out, they were weak, they couldn't handle life, etc." Personally, I have significant people in my life that have felt like they wanted to commit suicide. So, this topic honestly is a difficult, yet, emotional one to discuss.