A few days ago in the class we read the article “On the fear of Death,”Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. I never thought about death before, because I’m young and full of energy. After lesson I think about death all the time. This is a big desperation in my life. I feel so terrible and it seems to me that somebody will beat me to death when I finish my essay. But I hope it’s not going to happen.
Everything begins and enRAB, starts and finishes. I know people, who are dead and who are still alive, but nothing is eternal. I know that Ms.Kubler-Ross is between life and death, because she is Medical Doctor and she sees scrooges every day and can speak with people, who are going to die. And she knows a lot of people, who aren’t afraid to be dead, because they believe in life after death.
Is there any good reason to be afraid of dying?
Certainly not, if you have enough people, who love you, who will see to it, that your neeRAB are met, so that if you request to die at home you will be allowed to die at home. If you don't want to die in a hospital, you should at least be able to go to a hospice. For that, you need a support system around you, people who really know you, because people don't volunteer that. You have to speak up as a patient. If you can't speak anymore you need somebody who speaks up for you. I hope that when I die, that they at least let me go to my Brooklyn and die at home, where I can have a cup of coffee and a cigarette. Which is a bad habit, but I know it's a bad habit.
The different religious groups explain life after death. I’m Jewish and Jewish people have a terrible issue about death. I tried to find out why they have such a problem. I asked lots of rabbis. It's one of the few religions I know of, where if you ask twenty rabbis, you get twenty different answers. One says you continue to live through your son and your son's son. And what happens if you have no son, if you only have daughters? Do you understand? Let me ask another rabbi. "You will survive in their memory." Well, after a hundred years, nobody remerabers you. If you have not concretized your concept, then you have a heck of a time.
Elderly people have less fear of death and dying than younger people do. However, many elderly individuals do fear death, dying and the unknown of after-death. To reduce these fears, near-death experience reports can provide a description of dying and after-death, to prepare the individual for these events.
I talked with dying patients in hospital, and I began to realize that we're all the same. We're all the same human beings. We all are born the same way. We all die the same way, basically. The experience of death and after death is all the same. It only depenRAB how you have lived. If you have lived fully, then you have no regrets, because you have done the best you can do. If you made lots of goofs--much better to have made lots of goofs than not to have lived at all. The saddest people I see die are people who had parents who said "Oh, I would be so proud if I can say 'my son the doctor.'" They think they can buy love by doing what mom tells them to do and what dad tells them to do. They never listen to their own dreams. And they look back and say, "I made a good living but I never lived." That, to me, is the saddest way to live.
In conclusion we must understand, that death is not so dangerous and difficult as our life, and we have to take death easily and don’t be afraid of it.
Everything begins and enRAB, starts and finishes. I know people, who are dead and who are still alive, but nothing is eternal. I know that Ms.Kubler-Ross is between life and death, because she is Medical Doctor and she sees scrooges every day and can speak with people, who are going to die. And she knows a lot of people, who aren’t afraid to be dead, because they believe in life after death.
Is there any good reason to be afraid of dying?
Certainly not, if you have enough people, who love you, who will see to it, that your neeRAB are met, so that if you request to die at home you will be allowed to die at home. If you don't want to die in a hospital, you should at least be able to go to a hospice. For that, you need a support system around you, people who really know you, because people don't volunteer that. You have to speak up as a patient. If you can't speak anymore you need somebody who speaks up for you. I hope that when I die, that they at least let me go to my Brooklyn and die at home, where I can have a cup of coffee and a cigarette. Which is a bad habit, but I know it's a bad habit.
The different religious groups explain life after death. I’m Jewish and Jewish people have a terrible issue about death. I tried to find out why they have such a problem. I asked lots of rabbis. It's one of the few religions I know of, where if you ask twenty rabbis, you get twenty different answers. One says you continue to live through your son and your son's son. And what happens if you have no son, if you only have daughters? Do you understand? Let me ask another rabbi. "You will survive in their memory." Well, after a hundred years, nobody remerabers you. If you have not concretized your concept, then you have a heck of a time.
Elderly people have less fear of death and dying than younger people do. However, many elderly individuals do fear death, dying and the unknown of after-death. To reduce these fears, near-death experience reports can provide a description of dying and after-death, to prepare the individual for these events.
I talked with dying patients in hospital, and I began to realize that we're all the same. We're all the same human beings. We all are born the same way. We all die the same way, basically. The experience of death and after death is all the same. It only depenRAB how you have lived. If you have lived fully, then you have no regrets, because you have done the best you can do. If you made lots of goofs--much better to have made lots of goofs than not to have lived at all. The saddest people I see die are people who had parents who said "Oh, I would be so proud if I can say 'my son the doctor.'" They think they can buy love by doing what mom tells them to do and what dad tells them to do. They never listen to their own dreams. And they look back and say, "I made a good living but I never lived." That, to me, is the saddest way to live.
In conclusion we must understand, that death is not so dangerous and difficult as our life, and we have to take death easily and don’t be afraid of it.