How aware death is relevant to you? How old are you?

Question

I took a gerontology class last spring. Do you know that most people become aware of death or death is possible to them after they lost a relative?
People assumed they have a lot of days to live until they lose their loved one or someone close. The majority part of the people fall among young people. Is it true?

Indeed, I can tell that people who are responding to this question are those who have lost someone ....

Should I assume that people, who never lose someone to death, ignore this question?

Answer 1

That's true. I never knew that people could die until i was 5, that's when my grandmother died. I didnt give it much thought though because i was 5, in fact i thought that she was just sleeping and that she would wake up, i was so confused of the funeral and all. I didnt ask much about it either. Then when i was 6 or something i asked my parents and i think that's when i realized that i could die.
Then right now, im 14, i just lost one of my friend, 18, she died in a car accident 4 months ago. I kept thinking that i had a long way to live because usually people die from oldness haha naive right? Then i realized that people can die anytime. It could be next week, or tomorrow or even now. So I learned to live my life without pushing things away and regreting. You never know if you'll have another chance because there can never be a "planned out" tomorrow and you can never guess what can happen. Im still young right? so then the last part of your question is true too. Well, to be honest i do still push stuff away, like my homework and stuff.

Answer 2

I think its true that people have a tendency to take advantage of the time they have until something wakes them up. It could be the death of someone close, or even the threat of ones own life that brings them around. This holds even truer for younger people since more mature people have more life experience and know better.
Im 38, have had close friends die for one reason or another, and was recently told of the possiblity I had a brain tumor (I didnt).

Answer 3

My dear friend as you rightly observed, death is one thing we may not comprehend unless it is close to us. And its way of letting us know it exists is by hitting us very closely.

It may be true. Because:

1. The young people are adventourous and carefree.
2. The young people in most cases are ignorant of their enemy (death)
3. The old people, out of experience know how to avert and avoid this enemy.
4. It may seem the young die most because the young are more in number than the old.
5. the young take risks that are in most cases not reasonable.

Answer 4

My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was nine and died when I was 11. She told me that she was going to die soon when she got breast cancer, so I have been aware of my mortality since I was 9.

Her death has really affected my life. I constantly move to avoid close relationships and not had a child yet. I didn't expect to make it to my 42nd birthday. She died when she was 42.

I always expect people to abandon me. The longest relationship I had was with my cat for 9 years and he died suddenly this year. I had just said to him on New Year's Day that he was almost in my life longer than my mother and then he died two months later, bummer.

Oh, I am 42.

Answer 5

I have been aware of my mortality ever since I could remember. Perphaps probably around 6 years old when I witnessed one of our good neighbors in an open casket at his funeral. I realized that I could be him....

Answer 6

I choked a couple of years ago and after that experience it told me that you never know when it is your time to go. I'm 19.