Describe your feelings and attitudes toward death and dying. What influences have affected your?

Question

attitudes? I need to have at least 10 people for a sociology paper to tell me. Please help me get a good great.

Answer 1

i am not afraid, i used to be afraid of dying so much that it limited the things i did in life, this is because of the religion my parents brainwashed into me as a kid, once i grew up, started learning more about medicine and science, and realizing that death was just another stage of life (be it the last stage) and not some punishment from a vengeful god, i suddenly wasnt afraid of heights anymore, i wasnt afraid to go in the water, i wasnt afraid to fly, all the things i had associated with dying
i still of course do not want to die a slow painful death, as no one would, but my fear of death no longer occupies my life

Answer 2

Attitudes Towards Death And Dying

Answer 3

In The Little Pilgrims Progress, death is described much like a river. For some people the water is choppy and there is much suffering. For others, the water is calm and they slip into death calmly and quietly. Death is just a part of life and it is not the end. If you take the batteries out of a toy, the toy doesn't work. You still have the batteries, which is much like the body and soul. Without the soul, the body ceases to function, but the soul doesn't just evaporate. It's just another door we have to open and enter.

My Christian beliefs have affected how I feel about death and dying, and watching how some folks go can be heart wrenching, but God always has a better plan.

Answer 4

Well, since I have salvation of my soul, propogation of my species, and my plot is paid for, I'm ready to go any time. (You hear that Lord? Any time now....I'm just here waiting.....)

Things that have affected me include My Faith, My Age (42), and probably my Life Experiences - my sister died when she was 14, and I realized that tomorrow is not guarunteed for any of us. If God does not exist, then nothing really matters and life isn't worth holding onto anyway. I believe He does exist, and that when I die, I will see Him.

I'll tell you one thing - my attitude has not chaned since I found out my lymph nodes are all active and the Doctor doesn't know whether it's an infection, a Sarcoidosis, or lymphoma. You aren't promised tomorrow anyway - a bus is as deadly as cancer.

As I was contemplating my own mortality, the one thing I might regret was leaving my family behind - I'd miss my daughters....

I'm just doing the best I can with the time God gives me.

Answer 5

Death is a change we can gradually learn to accept. Over and over, what we see will come and go. Change happens. What has helped me to accept is directly experiencing my real self. It's an inner thing. That experience is happiness not dependent upon things that come and go. We think we are just body and mind. There is something else that we are. It is a reality, not a thought or idea.

Answer 6

i just got a call about 9.00pm tonight my aunt is dying they put her on life support only till her husband can get there. i hate death that is a stupid thing to ask someone who is not dying i know my father welcomed it he had been sick for so long but i was selfish and still needed him to this day i do but i am scared to dye the only thing is i would be with my dad again also my 9year old son came so close to death in 99 and in fact they told me after he got out that he did 3xs they had to bag him for 3hr. so just plain and simple it sucks big time

Answer 7

Not an option for me right now, I have young children who need me, but when we die, we will meet in heaven along with my little boy I lost in a miscarriage.

Answer 8

yeah i don't like dying. I'm against it. Shocking.