Inevitability Of Death In America

Every human faces the inevitability of death. No matter who they are, or what they do, death will eventually come to claim them. So much of Earth’s history contains death. Whether speaking on the subject of Genghis Khan, who was responsible for decreasing the world population by killing hundreds of thousands of people, the death of an empire, when the great Roman empire met its demise, or death brought on by disease, like the bubonic plague, death has made a name for itself throughout the millions of years on Earth. Today’s modern America is very different from the old one. Thanks to advances in science and medicine, Americans have been able to lead happier, healthier lives. But the fact still remains that every person will eventually return

They do not want to address what is eventually coming. America is determined in trying keep themselves in a physically youthful state. Americans tries to achieve this by undergoing plastic surgeries. Actually, “The U.S.... long [has] dominated the world of cosmetic procedures, according to the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery New York, having performed 17.9%... of the world’s 17,007,858...” (USA Today, 2017). This goes to show how much keeping up a young appearance matters to America. The American culture fools themselves with things like this to give the feeling that they can forever remain young, and not undergo the effects of aging. (Johnson, 2004). No one is able to elude the aging process. Yet, instead of accepting aging as part of life, Americans go out of their way to try to mask this with procedures relating to plastic surgery, in hopes to make themselves appear as if aging and death will not take its

The progress that was made in medical technology changed where people would die. Johnson writes how, “In the late 1800s, the number of people in the United States who died in a hospital was under 20 percent”. By 1970, this number skyrocked to where almost all Americans were dying in hospitals (Johnson, 2004). In this way you are not having to personally deal with the deceased person. It is not like the past where, “Family members washed the body, built the coffin, and prepared the grave site...” (Johnson, 2004). Also, family may be located hundreds of miles apart. Because of this, when the the death of a loved one happens, the death process does not seem as real, as opposed to being there with them (Johnson, 2004). Dying in a hospital stripes the personal aspect away from death. A hospital is a public place where anybody can be. A home is a personal place where you have shared memories unknown to the rest of the world. When dying in a home, one has to personally address the situation, and feel the real, raw emotions brought with it. Death in a hospital can feel almost distant and surreal. When I heard the news that my grandpa died, it felt very surreal. I had a lot of doubt, seeing that he was over a thousand miles away from me, and that I had just seen him a few weeks before. I was not personally there with him, and to this day, I can still feel