Doughty- Confronting Your Death

In Caitlin Doughty's video Ask a Mortician- Confronting Your Death expresses that since most humans are afraid of death, we must confront it. Instead of not talking about death, we should talk about what we want happening to our bodies after death. She mentions being buried typically within a casket, burning the body to ashes, or being buried within the ground naturally without having your body trapped in a box. In simpler words, conventional burial, cremation, and natural burial. Doughty believes we shouldn't be shy to talk about this. Although I agree with her, I do believe it will take time to actually talk about what happens to your own body. Some, of course, will feel the extreme uncomforted feeling of this thought because it still relates to you dying. But, I do believe that it may cause a little more unease to yourself. In my view, I can think about what I want happening to my body, but the only discomfort I'd feel while thinking about this is how I won't be sure that this'll happen to my body. Once I'm dead, I'm dead. I won't have control over what happens to my body because anyone could do anything to it without my consent. That is the only worry I'd have thinking about my dead body.

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  1. Emma LMarch 27, 2019 at 12:04 PM

    I agree that talking about anything relating to your own death would be extremely uncomfortable, but the more you talk about it with others, the more comfortable you will become with the topic. That is why Caitlin Doughty stresses talking about death to your family and/or friends if you have a fear of death. As for your worry of what will actually happen to your body once you die: I agree. I agree that you do not have any true control over what your loved ones do to your body once you die. I feel like you simply need to put trust in them that they will respect your wishes, and as long as you believe they will, you will be comforted no matter what they do with your body after you die

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  2. Madison DunbarMarch 28, 2019 at 4:29 PM

    I agree with your statement that it'll take time to confront your death. Death is not easy and it's not something people wake up and think that they want to talk to someone about. Yes, it'll eventually happen where we have to discuss death, but putting it off for the time being is not a bad thing. I also agree that we really don't have control with what happens to our body once we die. We need to hope and pray that our family listens to what we want if we ever talked about it, or just hope that they do what they think is best. So in doing what is best, they honor your body and who you were as a person.

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  3. Jose A. Ortega PabloMarch 29, 2019 at 7:45 AM

    The second part to your post truly captures the essential element that can counter argue her reasons for why we should no longer fear death and the focus on what we want done to our bodies after death. If we set our goals and decided on our burial format, we can come to a complex situation in which anxiety could be built regarding our concern of making sure our wishes get carried out regarding the burial we wish to have. Your final days leading up to your death could be torture if all you think about is what will happen to your body after death. I agree with your statement but I believe we must have some reasonable wishes and be level headed about the whole situation.

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