A Good Life Analysis

After taking this class I would define a good life as making a positive difference in someone else’s life. It could be that throughout life you did simple gestures as saying hi or holding a door open to a grand gesture of saving a life, I believe if you made a positive difference and you feel good about the life you lived then it was a good life.

A good death as someone being at peace with who they are and what they have done. I think it’s important that the dying person have no regrets in their life and that when they lay on their death bed they are comfortable with the life they have lived. Another characteristic of a good death to me would to have the feeling of being valued by your peers and family members. It would be sad to leave this world knowing you needed impact anyone’s life.

If you have been a person of greed and negativity your whole life I don’t think lying on your death bed you will feel at peace with what you have accomplished. I also don’t think you would be seen as a person of value to your peers or family.

Throughout this class I feel I have learned a great deal with that be said the 3 topics I have learned the most from are: beliefs about death and how the amount of encounters with death can change how a person sees death from thinking its avoidable or natural part of life, how to help a dying person cope by what not to say during such a sensitive time, and third the childhood perspective on death changed my whole thinking about children in the grieving process.

This class has been very beneficial in many ways and given me so much to think about. I love how I now feel more comfortable talking about death instead of treating it as a taboo subject. I would just like to say thank you so much for this learning experience.

Thank you,

Priscilla