Tuesdays With Morrie

What new knowledge or valuable information did I gain from the lectures, readings, and speakers? Throughout the duration of this semester in this class, we have learned a lot of different facts about death that you normally would not get unless actively seeking it out. I have learned so much through this course that I would never have been able to get unless I took it. I never thought that I would find it both interesting and amazing to learn about death, but the way this course was presented made it seem like it was something other than just a person dying. It was an amazing experience to see how the mourning of one’s death is both different and the same across the human lifespan. The Tuesdays with Morrie was an amazing example and wonderful

Death is one of those things. As a child one does not completely understand the concept of death and that it is not reversible. Marie Nagy had three different stages that she believed were what children experienced at different ages. The very first stage for the youngest children, ages being three to five experience death as it not being definitive meaning that the child will believe that the person who has died is still around somewhere and will eventually come back to them. The second stage that she gives is for children age five to eight and their through the process for death is that death is something that is avoidable which as we get older we know that it, in fact, is not avoidable. Her last stage is for those age nine and up and this is where death is finally starting to make some sense to the child (Hoy, 2018). Children are now exposed to death at an extremely early age and this is all due to cartoons. During cartoons now the creators depict death to be something that is able to be reversed (Corless, Germino, and Pittman, 2003). This is something that can confuse a child because as they are watching this they are coming up with little scenarios in their heads, but if someone in their family dies and they are being told that the person is not going to be coming back because they are dead then the child does not understand and will become frustrated and

At this time most elderly people are less fearful of death and the will be talking about it more. The elderly are less fearful because by this time most feel like they are whole and have accomplished all that they feel that they should have. The elderly may also feel like this because they now feel ready and this is because they may not have anyone left if all of their friends have died and their spouse has also died. The elderly could experience something called bereavement overload which is where one is experiencing many deaths in close occurrences and they do not have enough time to grieve each one of the deaths (Hoy,