Category: Death

Introduction: The Profound Impact of Losing a Parent “Love your parents and treat them with loving care, for you will only know their value when you see their empty chair” –Unknown. Currently, in America, most children take their parents or guardians for granted. Most children presume their parents are “out to ruin their lives” and…

Ethical Problems of Death and Dying Death and dying are individual phenomena yet widely shared experiences. Death affects the perception of the identity and culture of a society. In the medical field, death is as well a critical concern. Individuals and the community expects the best to happen at the medical facilities. Hence, there are…

I was nine years of age on the first occasion when I saw it, seven days before Thanksgiving in 1953. I heard it initially, a vehicle lingering outside the house. Something wasn’t right with its engine, similar to its cylinders beating more slowly than they should. I gazed into the shadows for some time, tuning…

‘Siblings have a unique bond, which no one else can experience. So the death of a sibling is considered to be a unique experience.'(Robinson & Mahon, 1997; Worden, Davies & McCown, 1999). I would like to start my essay with this quotation because, in this essay, I will explain my experience, death of the loss…

Suicide is a serious matter where people take their lives for so many reasons. With that being said many take their lives due to bullying, depression or emotions, relationships, hardships within families, or elsewhere. There are so many reasons why people decide or think it’s best to take their lives. Thousands of suicides occur within…

The dead have risen, and they have a voracious desire for human flesh. The world is crumbling and falling straight to hell. Your friends and family have joined the undead, and they’re coming right at you. Zombies have been around for centuries. The word originated from Haiti, in which a human corpse is brought back…

Mercutio curses both the Capulets and the Montagues with the phrase “a plague on both your houses”, as he realizes he is dying; this repeated curse foreshadows Romeo and Juliet’s tragic fate. Mercutio’s speech is composed in a prosaic form that is spontaneous and unpredictable in comparison to the rest of the play, which is…

Chommy, you have left a void that no one can fill. The day Onele told me that Siphesihle was no more, I didn’t believe her. I went straight to check the police report on the Internet. I was just browsing the report checking if your name was there. I was happy that your name was…

At only fifteen years old, I was faced with a grief like no other – the loss of my best friend, Vilsen, to suicide. Following Vilsen’s passing, I often found myself trying to imagine how he was feeling in the final moments of his life. It made me crumble to think of how alone such…

It is not unusual for Shakespeare’s plays to have a recurring, main theme spread throughout and reflected in the characters, the incidents and situations they experience, and detailed suggestions made in the plays. One of such main themes in the play Hamlet is the theme of loss, be it loss of family, loss of possession,…