HW 47- Peer Perspectives on The Care Of The Dead

Questions I will be asking the interviewees:

Q1. What are you first thoughts when you think of the topic of death?
Q2. Why is death usually feared by the majority of people in general?
Q3. Do you believe in an afterlife?


Interviews:

My cousin

Q1. Its something very serious and something people definitly shouldn't take for granted. Death can change a lot of lives other than the person who actually dies. Its tough stuff.
Q2. I believe its feared because you never know when its gonna happen to you. Death happens everyday at random, it can happen to you any day, any week, any month, any year. Its the perfect reason to live everyday like its your last.
Q3. Yes and No. I would like to believe that there's a God and a Heaven, but who's to say that they know for sure that there is such thing? Only time will tell whether its true or not.

My cousin

Q1. Death is apart of life. People usually get spooked out by the thoughts of Death, but its something you can't change. You're born, you live, you die. Simple as that.
Q2. Like I just mentioned, people can't change Death, they can't control when it comes to them (except of course for suicide). But in a natural case, death can happen anytime, from sickness, to an auto accident, death is everywhere.
Q3. I deeply believe in an afterlife, although I don't know exactly what it looks and feels like. I believe life itself is only the first stage of our existence in the universe.

My uncle

Q1. Death is looked at from many different points of views. My personal view on death is that its from exhaustion of life. When you get old enough, most people have to work hard to make a living. Our bodies are machines, and those machines eventually have to stop working completly.
Q2. I don't know why people are so scared of death. Its gonna happen, period. There's nothing you can do to stop it. Just live life and die when you die.
Q3. I don't know that for a fact. All I know is, when you die, you can only experience death when you yourself are dying. You'll find out when you die I guess.

my friend

Q1. Death is the conclusion of your life on earth. You die, and then you go to heaven or whatever place there is to go after you die.
Q2. I don't know. Do people think it hurts or something? Well in some cases it does, like if you're hit by a car or something. Id like to die in my sleep, nice and peaceful, painless.
Q3. There's someplace out there in the universe. Call it heaven, call it anything you want. There just has to be a place after life.


Thoughts on Interviews:

Speaking only for the group of people I interviewed, here are just a couple of mashed points I got when talking about Death.

- Death for the most part is a subject that is understood by most people. The majority of our population understand the happenings. They accept death for whatever they see it as, although the actual universal meaning of Death isn't truly known by anyone walking this Earth.
- Death is often a topic that is feared by people. A lot of people often speak out against wanting to go through death as if there's a possibiltiy that they could avoid it. This is because nobody knows what death truly is. Its almost the same reason as why people were scared of the dark at one point in their lives. It because they don't know what is there. What's feared by people is that of the unknown.
- For the most part, people believe in some kind of afterlife. They believe Life is the first of a multiple stage process that exceeds greater happenings than life on earth, and instead looks at the bigger picture of existence in the universe.