HW 19

 The way my parents view death has greatly affected the way I see death also. Because my parents are religious I view death a only a beginning to an end, because there is an afterlife(a good one in heaven, or a terrible one in hell). Not only that but the experiences they have faced and the ones I have have definitely affected how we see it. For the most part on my dad's side, the topic of death followed the social norm.  My dads parents didn't talk about death to him because its a very sad and depressing topic, so instead they shunned it. On my moms side it was similar, my grandmother wouldn't talk about this stuff with my mom because my grandmother thought it was something for grown ups you only should talk about when it happens and no where else because its sad. The weird thing about this is although my grandparents did not talk about death with their kids, but mine are not afraid of the subject and because so neither am I. Because my grandparents didn't try to understand death it made my parents want to.

 My mom would talk about death and illness, because of the experiences in her life and the fact that her mom wouldn't talk about it with her, but she said if I was to ask her to talk about this topic( like later teen years) with her a while back she wouldn't like to.She said that because she didn't understand death  she was scared of it, same with my dad.The one major contrast between my grandparents and parents and my parents and me would be they were not allowed to look at dead bodies, but that is very different to my life because Ive been to 7 funerals.

 In my own life personally there was a period of time when people were dying left and right and I felt hopless, sad, and most of all angry(angry that I was helpless to just sit back and watch the people I love die). For a while I was depressed but after my fourth funeral I relized it was one of those things that happens and I learned to accept it. This it made me partially numb to death. What I mean by numb is not that I dont mourn the loss of a friend or family but Im not over emotional.  I remember reading from the play "The Flies" that there was public executions and this was done to "rob death of its glory". Nowadays society has subconsciously placed death has a nice big pedastal because we shun, fear, and dont (and in some cases do not want to) understand it.While I'm not promoting public executions I just thought it was interesting the way its viewed and found it kind of true in my life.  


Thoughts:
Is it wrong to feel numb towards death?