Is there a right or wrong way to grieve?

As we begin to read and learn more about the ways that different cultures and places grieves, teaches us that truly there is no way that is right or wrong. The rituals, around the world, may seem normal or weird to ours or to others yet that is how those people grieve over death. In the reading "From Here To Eternity" by Caitlin Doughty we began to focus on how there are so many more rituals and traditions that places around the globe use. Before reading that book I never had an idea that people did have different traditions. The book studied upon the idea of how there really is no right or wrong way to grieve about your loved ones death. When your loved one's life comes to an end, I believe that you have a right to process what has happened however and also goes for the funeral procession. In a way death does change others in drastic ways. That once someone does pass away that people who were remotely close, that their life will change.

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  1. Ashley SarkodeeFebruary 15, 2019 at 8:00 AM

    I agree with the premise of your argument. No one grieves the same nor can someone tell us how to grieve. Every culture has different way of grieving. For example, in Indonesia, the children sleep with the dead bodies. This influences adolescents how to interact with death. Caitlin Doughty shows that being more involved and intimate with death helps with the grieving process. Death affects everyone differently hence why people grieve differently as well. Grieving is associated with adverse physical symptoms such as intestinal problems, insomnia, shaking and chest pains. Although these physical symptoms are existing does not mean every person that is grieving undergoes those symptoms.

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