Doughty Video #1
Doughty says that the best way to lessen your fear of dying is to think of what you want done with your body after you die. She says that something shifts when you think about your own demise in this way. I agree with this. The best way to get over a fear is to face whatever you are afraid of. Of course, you won’t actually face your death until the day legitimately comes, but thinking about what you want done with your dead body creates more exposure to the idea of your own death without imagining yourself in the process of actually dying, which is what drives most people’s fear of death. Imagining what happens to our dead body should be easier than imagining how and when we will die. Imagining how and when we will die will likely just create more anxiety than we already have around our deaths, but imagining what we want done with our bodies is a less scary way of confronting your own death. Thinking about your body after your death should be easy because you are skipping the part that is hard to think about. Altogether, I agree with what Doughty is saying, and think that the more exposure you get to the idea of your own death, the more comfortable you will be with it.
Although I agree with your statement of getting over a fear by facing whatever you are afraid of, I believe death is still a topic that would be hard for those to come to talk about, let alone imagine. I feel as if you must be a very open-minded, willing person to talk about your own death and what you want to be done to you after that. I do agree with imagining what happens to your dead body should give you more ease than imagining your act death and how it'll happen. Focusing more on after the death rather than the actual death.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your claim that acknowledging and coming to terms with the fact that we are going to die can help us be more comfortable not only with the topic as a whole, but personally with our own death as well. Maybe then humans will no longer think of death as this horrible event but instead think of it as a normal thing that will happen to all of us one day in our life. I agree that thinking about what you want to happen to your body, or how you want to be remembered is a good start to having the conversation about death because it is something that we need to think about and once we begin talking about it, then we get that exposure and that will result in a comfortable and overall better feeling with death.
ReplyDeleteBy facing and coming to terms that you will die, I agree with the fact that we do to it at some point. By doing so, it most definitely will give us more exposure and hopefully lessen our fear of dying or facing our death. We should tell someone what we want done with our body so the person who we told and us know that our body will be taken care of positively and the person we told knows this is exactly what we wanted.
ReplyDeleteYou prove a valid point but you should also take into consideration the anxiety that you could go through by stressing over whether your burial will be done right or not. this is complicated situation because death presents it self as a challenge with no real good out come. You will seize to exist and whether you come to terms with it or not, you won't truly know what happens to your body after death. It seems like a good distraction that can get your mind off the process of death and make you more comfortable with death by focusing you on the bodies journey after death. But you should be able to understand death and come to terms with it so you can resolve anything left you'd like to fix.
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree with your claim that the best way to get over a fear is to face whatever it is you are afraid of. However, I also feel death could be considered one of the few exceptions to this claim. We naturally fear what we are uncertain of, and until the moment we die we will be uncertain of what comes after our deaths. For this reason, I kind of feel like we do not have that much control over our anxieties about death.
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