In the teaching of Buddha, all of us will be end up our life in the natural process of birth, oldness and death. We must always remember the variable of life, and we must appreciate and full of hope to have our life. However, death is not the finality of life for Buddhism. It’s only the end up of the body in our life but our spirits still will exist and seek through and depends on find the new bodies and new life. Their place of birth is the result of formerly, is the accumulating of the positive and negative actions and from this to create Karma, it is the result of the action from the past. After that, it will cause the people to be rebirth of one of the 6 realms which are heaven, human, Asura, hungry ghost, animal and hell. Realms is according …show more content…
We have to prepare responsibility, well and positive for ourselves or others. So it can cause calm, happiness, controlled mind at the time of death. Through the positive and full of sympathy on outlook on life, always perceive the variable of life, and in this short life we have to a mentality of love to face all of things in our life, we have to free to fear in adverse to get rid of selfish to life because do not have experience happiness in life. To leading the responsibility and full of sympathy of life and do not have to regret when death are approaching, we enables to surrender without a struggle to the unavoidable and state of mercy which need not to be uncomfortable that we lead to believe. When the people approaching one’s end, the Buddhist person is possible to ask for the service of a “monk or nun” in their extraordinary tradition to help in this process further and to make the transition to experience of death as peaceful and the free of fear so it can be possibly to achieve. If the people of ill person in the hospital and the diagnosis is cruel that the person cannot possible to alive, the family should be call the Buddhist priest to pray for the loved one so that in the final moment with the correct mentality within the person and they are find their way into the higher condition of rebirth
It roots to our idea of the philosophy of life, in terms of reflection on our existence as humans and not only the contingence but the limitations thereof. Death encompasses the individual’s fundamental existence on the one hand and reshapes our concepts of its nature complementing one another in order to enlighten the idea of it. The manifestation of an individual to herself/himself is made probable by nothingness. The notion of spirituality and death in existentialism.
Atul Gawande’s book, “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End,” explores different themes such as, aging, death, and the mishandling of both aging and death by the medical profession’s. This book also addresses what it means to live well near the end of life. It is not just to survive, not just to be safe, not just to stay alive as long as the medical technology allows, but, according to the author it is about what living truly means to an individual. The author describes that the idea of “Being Mortal” developed as he watched his elderly father go through a steep decline in his health and the eventual death. He soon realized that during his medical education and training he was never taught how to help his patients with managing
When a patient is at the end of life it is very important to value the patients self dignity and their decisions at the mere end of their lives. The end of life care is to relieve the weight of the patient 's shoulders physically and mentally. I approve of end of life caring. Basic end of life care is summarized by improving the care of quality of life and dignity of the ill person. The important themes to good ethics of end of life care is a combination of human rights,respect,dignified care,and privacy.
Death is something that will eventually happen to everyone, but there are so many different ways of people that deal with death around them. There are some people who don’t deal with death well, so they become mentally and emotionally unstable for their entire life. On the other hand, there are people who accept death for what it is and take the necessary steps to become more tolerant to it. In Being Mortal, by Atul Gawande, he speaks about the various aspects (such as the cost of taking care of elderly people) that surround death that people often neglect. Death can be a very taxing area of discussion, but once people accept its cruel nature they can overcome the burden it brings.
Many of us have thought about life after death. What happens to us after we die? Where do we go? What happens to our body? Do we go to heaven?
EVALUATION ESSAY Which two worldviews you have learned about are most at odds with one another? Why? In my opinion I feel that the two worldviews that I have learned that are most at odds with one another are Christian theism and Naturalism.
It aims to achieve Tao which means to attain the right path in life and thus become immortal. Moreover, soul or spirit of a person will never die and it will shift to the other body. After that, it will reborn as another person and this will be repeated until it attain the Dao. When the Dao is achieved, the soul or spirit has the ability to travel through time and space and thus becomes immortal (UK Essays, 2015). However, Buddhism has different ideas on the world after death.
A ritual is a religious or solemn ceremony in which certain actions are performed according to a prescribed order; rituals are seen across all religions and cultures. Tibetan Buddhism, is a part of the practical philosophy of Buddhism, which was first taught by Prince Siddartha Guatama (The Buddha); The philosophy is over 2,500 years old and currently has 376 million adherents worldwide (BBC , 2014). A ritual that is evident in Tibetan Buddhist culture is the Sky Burial, which has been performed for centuries with the first rites being recorded in an indigenous Buddhist community in the 12th century. This ritual entails the deceased to be dismembered and fed to Sky Vultures (Danikis) in the rocky Tibetan Autonomous Region as the most common
The tale regarding the afterlife and the transmigration of souls which concludes Plato’s Republic, written in approximately 380 BCE, has since altered the way in which people view the meaning of life. His legend entitled The Myth of Er depicts a man’s exploration of the afterlife and ultimately serves as motivation for people to better themselves so that they may have a more pleasant future after death. Plato’s iconic story forever impacted religious and philosophical thought. For instance, it greatly inspired Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BCE-23 BCE), a Roman lawyer, politician, and philosopher, as seen through his rendition of The Myth of Er which is called The Dream of Scipio (Ferguson, 2018). Additionally, parallels between Plato’s myth and
In the Christian faith, Christians believe that once your earthly body has passed on that your spiritual body lifts to heavenly with all of your brother and sisters in God to live eternally, only if you believe and
In “ How Doctor Die”, an article written by Ken Murray, is about the way to prolong the life of doctors and patients when they have terminal illness. In most cases, a doctor home went, closed their practice and never set foot in a hospital again. They want to have more time with family. Doctor is a person treat the desease and save the patients; however, when they have illness, they are also like other patients. They can meet a difficulty with their patients in treament,but they feel easy when they are a patient.
This paper describes and analyzes a life review interview with an older adult. The purpose of this paper is to discuss, record and reflect on an older adult’s life in order to evaluate them on the last stage of Erik Erickson’s theory of psychosocial development; integrity versus despair. This paper will also focus on the elements of a life review as well as the reflections of the interview on the part of the author. JC is a seventy-seven year old white male who lives by himself in New York City. He was born in London, England, and was an only child.
It is not easy to make the decision of death. Thus, when a person wants to die with dignity, we as a society should respect their
Various religions across the world employ several different concepts that non-believers often find very strange or difficult to grasp. There is however a concept that is universally understood and somewhat accepted by the vast majority of our contemporary society. This is of course the concept of an afterlife. The afterlife can be defined as a sort of state of being where the consciousness of an individual persists even after the physical death of the body. This concept plays a central role in nearly all religions that employ it and is sometimes dependent on the existence of a God.
The Peaceful End of Life theory is paramount as the authors stated that every individual deserved to die in a peaceful manner with dignity. The theory is empirical based which is applicable to nursing practice in caring for dying patients, assessing interventions, maximizing care, promote dignity and enhancing end of life to be peaceful. According to Moore and Ruland, a good life is simply defined as getting what one wants (Alligood, 2014, p. 702). The approach of given patients what they want or their preference is a practical approach to the end of life care. This theory stands out to me because it fit into my patient’s diagnosis and I believe everyone deserves to die with dignity and peacefully.