This week's blog I will use information from chapter 12 of
"LIFESMART," something that quickly caught my interest in the book
was the book shows a graph pertaining the major leading cause of death since
1900 was cardiovascular death which is terrifying but makes perfect sense (Fiore, 2011, p. 280) . Due to the reason
that many Americans drink, eat although they do not exercise as many fast food
places appear everywhere such as McDonalds that is reasonably cheap for a
burger, fries, and drink. Deaths are also categorized as Four types of deaths
with the first death being clinical Death, Brain Death, Biological Death and
Social Death. These different kind of deaths are always interesting to me
because I only have seen death as death as death, we die and move on to the
afterlife or whatever the beliefs are for someone. (Fiore, 2011, p. 281-282)
Although the book says "the average life expectancy is
reported to be at an all-time high in nearly 70 years" which surprises me
because of all the bad food .Although we have so many medicines as technology
advances, new medicine is being released on a daily. (Fiore, 2011,
p. 280)
As well Jung's theory of spirituality talks about the different stages of life,
for example, the first half of life talks about understanding life and oneself
and becoming content with themselves. He goes to talk about the second half of
life going into specifics about knowing what an individual want in life and
what the individual knows what they want to out their energy. (Fiore,
2011, p. 293)
What I have read in this Chapter is that death is a process and it takes the
time to get over death, some people longer than others and some may undergo a
traumatic change to accept the death of someone, but nevertheless realizing
someone you loved and now gone from the world is a big change.
Concluding this with that I believe with the American
culture we struggle with death but have open arms with life and newborn being
born. Although in other cultures both death and life is proudly accepted
because we know that we have lived a long, proud life and isn't sad about
passing from earth. I struggle with the concept of death because I would like
to securely know where I am going after I am finish living the present life. I
am living, will I be reborn as an animal another human or go to heaven or hell
or possibly some place even greater than both, to my knowledge I have no
whereabouts too. I would like to think
we will live as we want and complete the actions as we want and for the
conclusion we will hopefully go to a better place, I feel many people actions either
good or bad they don't stop to think is this the right thing to do?Being their
conscience telling them right from wrong, Many people had consciences but lost
the part knowing what is good or bad before doing something.
That is a morbid statistic regarding the leading cause of death since 1900. This is even more frightening when there are additional risk factors amplifying the chance of
ReplyDeleteheart related deaths. I personally have a lot of stress in my life being a husband, father, and student. I also don't exercise and eat the way I need to, which definitely doesn't help. I believe in order to minimize the risk of my health problems, I must alleviate undue stress, eat right, and exercise. The majority of push back we give in regards to death comes from our lack of effort to prolong our life. I mean if we are doing everything we can to be our very best in life, we should have no regrets.
The statistics in our book regarding the leading cause of death was frightening! I think that the older we get the more we become aware of what we are eating, how much we are exercising and how we deal with stress and try to keep a healthy lifestyle but it can also be tough to remember to do those things and to make the right choices if we are feeling busy and overwhelmed. I don't believe in having regrets, I think that each and every decision we made created the person we are today and I can say for certain that I do not have any regrets in life.
ReplyDeleteSavon, I like the fact that you bring up Western society's eating habits in connection with death and dying. Western society is the most obese in comparison to others. It is very true that we are dying as a result of our diets. But now, there is hope, like the book said, we are now living beyond 70. We have access to great information regarding diet and exercise and they are doing a great job at replacing medicines with their horrible side effects as well as preventing depression and ultimately suicide in some cases. Moderation is the key, and to listen to the signs our bodies gives us after eating and drinking. However, death in any case is hard to deal with and it helps to have resources available that can help us cope best. It is also helpful to be able to identify when grief is extreme or abnormal.
ReplyDeleteBeing that cardiovascular death is the leading cause of death in America is in fact frightening. America is known for its obesity which is why Michelle Obama has fought creating different organizations to fight this problem. Fast food restaurants are so easy to get to and so cheap too opposed to purchasing organic and healthy foods!! We Americans have to fight for our health and figure out cheap alternatives to be able to live a healthy life style. I loved your analysis! Great job!
ReplyDeleteSavon,
ReplyDeleteIt is very terrifying to see that cardiovascualr death is the leading cause of death in Americans. I know how hard it can be to take control of your diet, I am sure many people struggle on a daily basis with food. This chapter was definitely an eye opener, great job!