"Grief," he states, "...consists of the interplay of individual family members grieving in the social and relational context of the family, with each family member affecting and being affected by the others." Families sometimes erroneously believe that each member's grief will be similar to the others' because they have experienced the death of a specific person within their family system. In reality, however, each family member's grief is unique. ... A primary advantage for this form of contact is that it is tangible, can be reread to extend support and care to the family over...

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Consequently, euthanasia should become a law if specific sub laws are put in place to protect the patient and their loved ones. ... Through physician-assisted suicide an ill and dying patient may have the choice of a comfortable death in their own home surrounded by loved ones and away from the foreign surroundings of the hospital. ... "[Euthanasia] should be universally available, legal, safe, painless, and suitable for the gentle parting in one's own home with loved ones present" (Barbara Coombs-Lee). ... (BBC) In this case the family members of the patient would be able to...

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Victor finds himself rejecting his obvious mate, Elizabeth, in pursuit of his deep seeded desire for his mother as his only partner in love and sexual pleasure; his father and Elizabeth are competition for his mother's love. ... He had to work hard to hold onto is mother's love. Victor felt he was second fiddle to Elizabeth, "every one loved Elizabeth," "my more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only" (44). ... Victor wants to cure disease and raise the dead: perhaps, he wants to reunite Elizabeth with her parents and regain his own mother's love. ... Of cours...

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This helps to explain the near instantaneous deterioration of John Deake's family in the beginning of the 1760's. ... At first glance, the debts that John Deake inflicted upon himself and his family appear to fester from the heavy expenses of raising a family of nine children. ... Herein lies the mystery in this family's defeat. ... As a further blow to the family, beyond the death of the father, to help pay off the debts and affairs, the children were bound out as servants. With the sudden death of the provider and protector, the members of the Deake family found themselves sep...

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"Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy! ...

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Brittany wanted to enjoy the time she had left with her loved ones, and she knew that debilitating treatments were not an option for her. ... Her only option was for herself and her family to relocated to Oregon and establish residency so that she could benefit from DWDA (Barber). ... For some individuals, there are no pressure over medical bills; for many, they are not a burden to anyone, and some may not have any family at all. ... Furthermore, in most cases, they have found that patients' families and friends are incredibly supportive and caring during times of medical crisis. For thos...

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Confusion, dementia or the feeling that they are a burden to their families may also influence their decision-making. ... It is during the time of a terminal illness that people have a unique opportunity to reflect on the way they have lived their lives, to make amends for wrongs done, mend family relationships and rediscover mutual love and responsibility that may not have been evident for years. ...

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Common to all, however, are colorful ornamentation and lively gatherings at family burial plots, the preparation of special foods, offerings which are laid out for the departed on commemorative altars and religious rites which are likely to include noisy fireworks. ... Those who have died as adults are honored on November 2nd at which time family members gather at the cemetery for gravesite reunions, which are more festive than somber. ... At the family burial plot in the local cemetery, relatives clean up each gravesite. ... Conclusion While death is a topic largely avoided in the USA, th...

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Minors the mentally unstable or unconscious patients, unable to grant consent themselves, are represented by family members or legal guardians. ... Family members who are offering moral support to the patients, have to make the sacrifice to relocate and as the patient is approaching that time closer to their death, friends and family want to be able to spend their final moments together to say their final goodbyes. The patient's family and friends should not have to go through the added inconvenience of relocating, because relocating makes it so much more of a hardship emotionally and f...

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Once Hazel and Augustus fall in love, the both realise that they face the same concerns and controversies along with Isaac in their lives; this brings them closer as they understand each other more. ... Although everyone dies eventually Hazel believes that she will die too soon to live her life and harm the ones she loves like Augustus and her family. Therefore, Hazel tries to push people away so, when she dies her loved ones won't be in so much pain. ... This quote also shows that Hazel doesn't want to die as she is afraid of leaving a mark that will burden the people she loves. ...

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Lying in her hospital bed, in a morphine-induced coma, Esther was well aware of the loving family that surrounded her. ... A major concern is that if physician-assisted suicide is legalized it would be abused by family as a way to dispose of undesirable members, or by depressed patients who may have a curable illness but who simply no longer wish to live. ... Not only does hospice provide the terminally ill patient with the medication necessary to ease pain and suffering during their final days, but it also goes a long way in helping to ease the mental anguish of the patient's family by ...

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Lopez explains that Tippetts, a woman in the process of dying of cancer, also supports the rejection of assisted suicide, by quoting her once again, "in your choosing your death, you are robbing those that love you with such tenderness, the opportunity of meeting you in your last moments and extending you love in your last breaths" (Lopez). ... " He continues in saying, "it hurts families by severing the ties that bind us, the commitments we owe to one another. ... This statement adds more of the emotion of sadness as is off the impression of bonds being broken between a ...

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For Vincent, he made it clear in his book that he didn't what her mother to be judge and he cited, "What she has done for me is surely the most beautiful proof of love in the world." ... Not only do they suffer but their family does also. ...

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Some terminally ill patients end their life to save the money their family spends on them! This is not the smartest of reasons to make a person end his life because naturally the family would rather have the person back with them well than having money. ... So, instead, every effort should be made to make the last days of the patient as comfortable as possible and to provide emotional and spiritual support to the patient and to the patient's loved ones (IAETF). ...

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Suicide notes may be left behind for family members, providing information regarding what to do with remaining finances, and information regarding his/her burial wishes. ... An elderly person may feel as if they are burdens to family and friends, and/or society as a whole. ... They may also choose suicide so as not to financially burden their love ones with the expensive drugs and treatment needed to maintain their physical well-being (Devons, 1996). ... They therefore have fewer resources, supports, and little contact with family and friends (Leo, 2001). ... Experiencing loss through deaths...

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The process of dying has grown to become "more lonely, mechanical, and dehumanized- (Kubler-Ross 21) in recent years "people no longer spend the last moments of their life in the comfort of their own homes surrounded by loved ones, but rather listening to the annoying siren of the ambulance or is in the middle of a unfamiliar and sterile hospital with doctors and nurses rushing around, frantically forcing in more time when the patient is ready to go. ... With generations living closely together and no hospitals or nursing homes, people died in their own homes surrounded by family. ...

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And this commitment to charity reminds the cancer person of the essential goodness of humanity and makes him/ her feel loved and encouraged because s/ he will leave a cancer-curing legacy. ... She is not some demigod, with immortal like strength, but a normal person, there should be no isolation, her life is not an easy battle, full of strength and wonder, and she worries about things like her health and her family being okay. ...

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Neither man is concerned with family life nor with romantic relationships with women, such things have no place in the epic hero's life. ... Enkidu becomes the protector and hero subservient to Gilgamesh, and Gilgamesh gains a friend whom he loves like a brother. ... So both epics share a similarly semi-divine central hero who is preeminent in battle who has a subservient comrade in arms whom he respects and loves dearly. ...

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