HW 48- Family Perspectives on the Care of the Dead

I interviewed my parents and my grandmother, along with the same questions I used for interviewing peers.

Q1. What are your intitial thoughts of the subject of Death?
Q2. Why do you think Death is feared by most people?
Q3. Do you believe in an afterlife?

My Dad

Q1. You're born, you go to school, go to work, get married and have kids, get older and die. Stepping back from it, life isn't that complicated.
Q2. Because they don't know what's out there after you die. Some people believe in heaven, some people believe its just like sleeping forever. You never know the truth until you die.
Q3. Nope, you just are fast asleep for all eternity.

My Mom

Q1. Its another part of life, the ending part. You go to heaven and reunite with all your loved ones that have passed before you.
Q2. Because people aren't sure what to expect. I was raised to believe that there is a heaven and there is a god, the same way you were raised. That's what church, and all religions for that matter are based around.
Q3. Absolutley, I believe there is a place where people go after they die. How would you explain the millons of sightings and ghosts and other paranomal events?

My grandmother

Q1. Death is a farewell on your life on earth. However, death doesn't necessarily mean the ending of all life. It just means the conclusion of one part of your life, and the beginning of another part.
Q2. People can be scared for many reasons. Mostly because death seperates you from your loved ones. Whether its you who is dying or the death of a loved one, death divides you from those you care for deeply. And although they are gone from your presence for the time being, you will reunite with them agin one day.
Q3. I definitly do. I believe there is such thing as heaven, a place where you fianlly rest in peace along with your family and friends. I imagine it as being the happiest place ever.


Thoughts on the Interviews:

The difference from this group of interviews from my interviews with peers my own age is that I feel the answers this time around were more deep and machore. I especially was touched by my grandmothers answers, especially when she mentioned how people are afraid not of death itslef, but of what death brings, which is the seperation of you from loved ones. I also liked how she said that death isn't the end of life altogether, but the end of one stage and onto another.