Death

This needs to be an argumentive paper for my death and dying class. This paper needs to focus on St. Augustines story, "death of a friend". This paper needs to stay on the topic of death. Talking about Augustines experience of death and his views on death. This paper also needs to have a bibliography. Main source should be his story.

hancement of 100 No errors Grammarly GRerapomrtmgeanrelryated on Monday, Dec 11, 2017, 10:14 PM Page 2 of 6 Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Death The subject of death has been a controversial topic since time immemorial. Nearly, all human beings are afraid of death and there are some who even find it challenging to talk about death. Many people keep wondering what will happen when they are gone, many are afraid of thinking of the death of close people to them like family and friends. It is even more worrying to bear in mind that death separates a person from their daily activities and they are send to a place that no one has ever been there to narrate on what happens after death. However, as much as there are so many unknown things regarding death , it ought not to be something that that people find it worrying (Bryant 4). People ought to understand the fact that death is a thing that has been there for a very long time. Also, death is there are it is unavoidable. Understanding this will help to accept death as part of an individual’s life and what is important is how well you spend your life while alive. Deducing from the story of Augustine on the death of a friend, it is evident that there are controversial opinions on how people ought to react and handle death . This argumentative essay brings varied notions regarding death to try and show that death is normal and people should not be worried of death by drawing notions from Augustine’s experience of death and his views regarding death. In St. Augustine’s story, “death of a friend, ” the friend of Augustine died. He was a close friend as he is even the one who convinced the friend to become a manichee . The friend becomes unconscious while ill and the family baptizes him. When he seemed to recover, Augustine went on joking to him regarding the baptism that he had received. The friend did not listen to the jokes and suddenly died. It was then that Augustine was overcome with grief and decided to run out of the town (Augustine, William, and Rouse 12). Deducing from the scenario , it 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 1 [, and] 2 [ ] 3 Repetitive word: death 4 [are send → are sent] 5 Repetitive word: death 6 [that that] 7 Repetitive word: death 8 Repetitive word: death 9 Repetitive word: death 10 Unusual word pair 11 Repetitive word: death 12 Repetitive word: death 13 Overused word: normal 14 [of → about] 15 Repetitive word: notions 16 [ ] , many → ; many manichee → manicure Grammarly GRerapomrtmgeanrelryated on Monday, Dec 11, 2017, 10:14 PM Page 3 of 6 is clear that Augustine still did not view death to be a normal thing even though he had earlier experienced the death of his father. Death ought to be regarded as a normal thing that is part of life. If Augustine had taken death as a normal occurrence that is part of life, he would not have reacted to the different deaths in his life differently. He would have learned on how to handle death whenever it occurs even among his closest people (Augustine, William, and Rouse 13). The confusion exhibited with the society that Augustine lives is still the same confusion and difference in notions that are still exhibited even within the contemporary society . In the world today, different cultures have different perceptions regarding death. While some perceive death as something good, others view death as a calamity. On the other hand, there are those who assert that death is a subject that people should not discuss lest death befalls with them (Bryant 5). Despite all these contradictory opinions, it should be understood that death is normal since it is unavoidable. In St. Augustine’s story on death of a friend, Augustine flees the town in order to escape the memories of his friend who has died. What Augustine does not understand is that death is normal (Augustine, William, and Rouse 13). Even though death tends to worry everyone in the society, educational institutions ought to take the initiative of integrating death and dying classes into their educational systems. It is a good thing to note that many schools have embraced teaching the subject of death in a dying class. However, it is also a sad thing to not that many students do not want to enroll in such classes on reasons that they do not see the reason of attending such classes and others are afraid of listening to the subject of death all the times that they will be undertaking the lessons in dying class . On the other hand, different students enroll in these classes for varying reasons known to them. There are students who enroll in these classes so that they may be able to fulfill a requirement of the degree that they are taking in the university while others enroll in dying classes to argument the training that they are carrying out in either medical or in other instances in behavioral health field . 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 39 38 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 17 Dangling modifier 18 Overused word: normal 19 Repetitive word: death 20 Passive voice 21 Overused word: normal 22 Repetitive word: death 23 Overused word: normal 24 Repetitive word: deaths 25 [on] 26 Repetitive word: death 27 Repetitive word: still 28 Repetitive word: exhibited 29 Repetitive word: society 30 Repetitive word: death 31 Passive voice 32 Repetitive word: death 33 Overused word: normal 34 [the death] 35 [in order to → to] 36 Repetitive word: death 37 Repetitive word: death 38 39 Grammarly GRerapomrtmgeanrelryated on Monday, Dec 11, 2017, 10:14 PM Page 4 of 6 Also, there are certain students who are not taking a course that is related to medicine or behavioral health but still attend death and dying classes to satisfy their curiosity regarding death and dying. Furthermore, there are students who enroll in death and dying classes because they are still coping with the loss of their loved ones (Bryant 5). From Augustine’s story, it is interesting to picture the context in which he talks about the reactions that he has regarding the death of his friend. He asserts that he is worthless without his friend but still loves the worthless life that he is living more than his friend. His notions are very different from the common thinking of many people. According to many people, the death of close people makes people to see life as meaningless. However, Augustine perceives death differently. According to him, even though life will not be lit with a friend you are used to, still life is worth living. This is how death ought to be viewed . Bryant (6) asserted that people ought to be concerned about living for the time that they are alive. By doing this, people will be in a position of making their inner self free of the spiritual death that is brought about by the thinking and definitions that are within the society regarding people’s lives and death. In St. Augustine’s story, in the course of his healing, he agrees that it is only through turning to God that a people can be peaceful because everything comes from God (Augustine, William, and Rouse 13). Similarly, in Christianity, it is believed that it is through death that people get life . Christian religious doctrines believe that Jesus, the son of God died so that people might get life . Therefore, for Christians, they ought to consider that death is a normal thing and take it positively so that they might find peace when their loved one is gone. Failure to taking death positively will lead to loss of meaning in life when a loved one dies. In the story of Augustine, he also found it had to have peace following the demise of his friend. When he thought of turning to God as a solution, he still could not be convinced that he will find peace in God. Even within the contemporary society, many people find themselves in very challenging situations as they do not know what they ought to do in order to find peace with the loss of a dear 52 51 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 67 66 68 SPpolsistiibnlfyinciotinvfeused word 40 Repetitive word: classes 41 Repetitive word: reason 42 Repetitive word: classes 43 Repetitive word: class 44 Repetitive word: classes 45 Wordiness 46 Repetitive word: classes 47 Repetitive word: enroll 48 Repetitive word: classes 49 [the argument or an argument] 50 [the behavioral or a behavioral] 51 Wordiness 52 Overused word: certain 53 Wordiness 54 Repetitive word: worthless 55 Overused word: common 56 [to] 57 Passive voice 58 Passive voice 59 Unclear antecedent 60 Passive voice 61 [self free → self-free] Grammarly GRerapomrtmgeanrelryated on Monday, Dec 11, 2017, 10:14 PM Page 5 of 6 one. However, it is only through education that people can understand that death is a normal thing (Bryant 7). In conclusion, Augustine’s notions of his friends death are very subtle, the reason as to why he is subtle in judgment is because he was not totally committed to God and this is the more reason he does not understand death to be a normal thing (Augustine, William, and Rouse 14). In the current society, understanding that death is a controversial subject within the society is very important . Students in careers that are engaged with seeing death people or dealing families of the deceased such as medical and psychology students ought to be the first to accept that death is a normal thing and take the initiative to create the awareness. The importance of creating awareness regarding death lies with the fact that the future of end-of-life care within the community and the entire county and even the world lies with the change that the society will have regarding the culturally ingrained notions of denying death. The most important thing in this awareness creation is to educate young adults regarding end of life. When young adults will understand that death is a normal thing, there will be great possibilities of change on how people view death

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