Week 7: Dying and Spirituality
Landon Joiner

Spirituality and Dying are two topics hard to talk about in our day in age. There are so many religions all over the world but what seems to unite them under the same belief is the act of dying.
The act of dying could be many things such as clinical death, brain death, biological death, and social death. These are all ways of dying but they are different. Brian death happens when your brain does not receive the sufficient amount of oxygen to survive. You see many people that go in to cardio arrest being performed CPR by and EMT or someone that is trained. This in not only to pump blood to the body but giving them rescue breaths to make sure that oxygen is getting into their lungs and brain to keep them from having brain damage. Clinical Death is very similar to brain death but the body stops breathing and the heart stops pumping. You would perform CPR on an individual to resuscitate them. Biological death follows clinical and brain death, the cells in your body started die due to the lack of oxygen. This is most likely seen with dead tissue around the body. And the final death is social death and this is the point where an individual is treated as if they were dead, although biologically they are alive. Death can be taken in many ways from the people that are left behind but there always is the stage of grief for each individual. Whether it's delayed grief for distorted grief each person will go through each step. The stages of grief our denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Each person Will go through each of the stages but they may not be in order and you could also bounce from stage to stage for the rest your life. With people living as long as they do now it is always tough to decide how you will die. Many people leave wills with their passing children so I may give away their belongings but then some right in there will of how they want to die and their burial preferences. Euthanasia is be active I need some life painlessly. Passive euthanasia first you not continuing the efforts to keep someone alive. Then there is also the active euthanasia, intentionally ending someone's life either by killing them directly or physician assistant suicide by giving them drugs to die. Active euthanasia is illegal and very many countries. The active going on to hospice care is most likely that a patient will have six weeks or less to live and they want to live comfortably. You would have the entire time I'm being on hospice to get your states in an affair.
Spirituality is always something tough to talk about with so many religious practices throughout the world but some series better come out in our book are Frankl's theory, Jung's theory, and Wilson's theory of spirituality.
 I found the first of the spirituality theories interesting. Frankl's theory of spirituality are separated into three categories the first is the somatic(physical) dimension. This stage keeps people motivated with the intention of continuing throughout life I living. The psychological dimension refers to the humans instinct, drive, and interactions with the environment of wanting to stay alive. The somatic and psychological dimensions are highly developed when a person reaches young adulthood. And the third it is the noetic mention routing from someone's childhood all the way until death to find the meaning of life.
I know since I am at a young age I have not had the experience of the death portion of my life but I have been fortunate enough to know many people who have gone through the stage in their life. From my observations I have noticed that many people turn to spirituality later in life not because her hoping to get to the higher power or to a greater place but they're looking back at the life. They do not wish to change their decisions that they made, but they're able to see which choice let them to where they are today. Their wisdom that the have told me is to live up every moment with out regret!
-Landon Joiner