Dying {death, psychology} adds fear, tension, and other emotions to life. Death makes one think of legacy. Death can be an escape. Death establishes deadline for activity.
feelings: dying
Dying people hope doctors or god will save them. They want to live. They want to know all about their case. They often talk about their philosophy.
People can face death by denial. People can face death by mastery behavior.
feelings: fear
People can fear death by imagining it or by fearing loss.
feelings: after death
After death, family is either angry or in despair. Mourners can be angry with dead person for leaving them. They can punish themselves, because they wished for person's death or feel that they caused death. They can want to elicit pity. They can need to talk, to free their emotions.
feelings: mission
People can give dying person mission.
feelings: problems
Financial problems, feelings of being a burden, loneliness, fear of pain, fear of dying, and fear for ability of loved ones to be able to adapt, all make dying harder.
feelings: reaction stages
If family member will soon die, family members go through same stages that typically happen during all life's changes: shock, denial, search for meaning, comfort, and hope.
The first stage in facing one's death is shock. Then comes denial and isolation. Partial acceptance follows. Anger can try to force another person to treat dying person as still a human being. People can project anger randomly. Bargaining is a brief attempt to offer good behavior to God to get favor. Bargaining can relate to guilt. Loss of body control, job, wealth, or ability to care for children can cause depression. Depression causes shortened sleep. Instead of depression, people can prepare for death, express and share sorrow, have long sleeping periods, and be silent. Then acceptance has tiredness, weakness, need for sleep, no feelings, no interests, desire to be left alone, and no talking.
factors: children's feelings
For ages up to three years old, death is like separation or like body mutilation. From three to five years old, death is like temporarily going away. From five to nine years old, death is person coming to take them away. After nine years old, death is biological death.
factors: custom
Customs can allow dying people to accept death. Customs can help people to share guilt or spread guilt over time.
factors: society
Death is more isolated, avoided, or ignored now than before. People have more fear of death, which relates to society violence level. Fewer people believe in life after death now. Suffering has no meaning now, so there is no reason to die or suffer.
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