In: Psychology
Option 2 Age Differences
People of varying ages have different attitudes toward death. Ask people of different ages (ideally, at least one from each decade: younger than 20, in their 20’s, 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s or older), what thoughts they have about their own death. Have they experienced the death of a close friend or family member? Are they fearful or not? How has their cultural background influenced their attitudes? What differences did your find and how might you attribute the differences to age or culture? Summarize your findings in a 1 – 2 page paper. Use the content in your textbook to support your conclusions.
They all have experienced death of their family members. Some of them experienced the death of their grandparents and some of them saw their parents dying. Some also experienced premature death of their friends in the childhood days.
They do not fear death if it happens according to the normal course of life. They fear painful death. They think that painful death is really horrible and it should not take place in one's life. They always take death as normal event of life. They also fear premature death.
They think it as an inseparable part of life. Therefore they think that nobody can avoid death. Their cultural background says teaches them that death mesns returning to the original home. They take it with religious point of view. They think it as return to God's realm. They think that through death one meets with those who already left the earthly world. They console themselves that premature death is the product of sin in the earthly life.
Their taking of death is not different from other cultures. They think that when death comes one becomes very familiar to death. It is the fate of all. It is controlled by God. So, God gives them blessing so that they can tolerate the pain of death.