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Facing the Last Days

On average within the average seventy year lifespan there are 25,550 days.

Paul Maciejewski (2007) found the disenfranchised grief response to be non-existent at the outset of the loss of a significant other(s) as observed in some people who are not allowing themselves any such outward expression.

Some survivors (widow or significant relative/friend) may become so emotionally devastated by their loss that their future living becomes compromised as they are experiencing complicated of grief. Once outgoing people withdraw from social life and any possibility of being reminded of their lost.

Upon the death of a person, the memorials and rites of their passing maybe delayed or left undone due to crime scene investigations, wartime circumstances, or autopsy, so they are experiencing the loss as incomplete grief. Wanting closure yet it always a distant distance away.

People may not wish to mourn their dead because they hold to the belief(s) that absent grief is a social norm, even as mores of their [e.g. Navajo] culture.

Elizabeth Kubler- Ross established a five stage pattern of Grief and Loss in her book On Death & Dying (1969) (https://www.ekrfoundation.org/5-stages-of-grief/on-death-and-dying/ (Links to an external site.)) proposing five stages of grief: DABDA =denial >anger >bargaining > depression > acceptance. To which we may want to add comfort.

Consider the above patterns as expressions of how we each feel about facing our last day.

Would one want to have such awareness (that this is the last day)?

What about those who never knew it coming so suddenly?

What important logistics should one have in place for such an eventuality?

What would you want your own epitaph to say about you to your survivors?

How has the COVID 19 pandemic changed or not changed thoughts are death?