Misrepresentations Of Death And The Ironic Process

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When death occurs, family members and friends mourn their passing, but they also come together to celebrate the deceased’s life. Each one of the connections wants to remember how fulfilling their friend’s or family’s life was. However, from a very early age, children are often spared and sheltered from the experience and only learn about death through “stories others [have] told [them] or depictions of deaths on television” (Warraich). These depictions associate death with only sadness and grief and are often overly dramatised and overly emotional. People learn how they should mourn from the examples they see on television. But these emotionally-charged examples are misrepresentations of how death and the mourning process actually occur in