Dog Refuses To Leave Owners Gravesite

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PhwcJmfjbk&feature=player_embedded#t=0s

This dog in eastern china absolutely refuses to leave the gravesite of his owner. I follow a Boston based sports blog and have been seeing a lot of instances where dogs just remain completely loyal to their owner when they die and It always makes me think of this class and also how special the bond is between man and dog. Even in death, the dog won't leave his side. It's truly an amazing and touching thing to see.

7 Billion....where do you fit in?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515
So, if you go to the link above ^
You will find an interactive app that will tell you 1) what # human being in the planet you are a) currently b)calculates the # from the beginning of time.




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Pretty cool stuff ha? So, I guess all of these people will die before me, death is natural, 80billion people have already died before me, so go live life, you know it is coming... might as well live life right.

When you were born, you were the:5,372,204,955thperson alive on Earth80,479,693,756thperson to have lived since history began

The Thrill of Life.

Last weekend I went skydiving for the very first time, and it was ridiculously scary. My heart kept beating wildly and as soon as they opened the doors once we were 13,000ft up in the air, I felt like I was going to die, yet as soon as I was about to leave to jump I saw this quote by Leonardo da Vinci "As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. " and so I though, life is about chances and experiences, life is about memories, and I when I jumped I no longer felt petrified, but instead felt free, as if saying "if this is life, then I welcome death", I felt as if death was just there to contrast the beauty of life, and that for me is the true thrill of life.

Double Standards?

I wish I would have thought of writing this earlier because I would love to read other's comments, but I literally was thinking about the situation surrounding my husband's death. On November 6th, 2009, my 23 year old husband was killed by a negligent 81 year old in a car accident. We lived in California at the time and the state law on vehicular manslaughter (which is what the man was charged with) has a minimum of 4 years in jail. From what I know from my lawyer was that he never served any jail time, he only had his license taken away. Do you think it's right that somehow this man got out of serving jail time, I am assuming because he was 81 years old at the time? What about if the roles were reversed? What if my husband killed this old man in the same manner? I am pretty sure he would have served the minimum jail time sentence. Do you think that it's right that some how this man didn't serve jail time for killing a US Marine?

Natalie Wood Death

As most of us have probably seen in the news recently, the death of Natalie Wood is coming back into light, controversy and questions are beginning to arise. However, what I have been questioning is why is our cultural so obsessed with death? We all want to find the unsolved mystery or find out who that killer really is. We can look at the case of Casey Anthony, or even of Jeffrey Dahmer, our society was so wrapped up in the death of another or others, that it was in ever headline, every article, etc. I ask myself and others, are we obsessed with fighting for the justice of this death, or we obsessed in the death itself? This is a question that may never be answered but should always be asked.

The Bucket List

This is the trailer of the movie The Bucket List.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX8XEXmhHss

This is the ideal of a "Good Death" in my beliefs. In this movie, it shows the reality of death and you should always live your life to the fullest and that it is never too late for lost time. I love The Bucket List. It really is a great movie and I recommend it to anyone. It really might open your eyes to the reality of death and that death doesn't have to be just sadness. You can have to best time of your life while you are in the process of dying, like these men in this movie. It is all up to you and the attitude you have about your life and your death.

Grandma's Death and the Void She Left

My grandmaother died on August 10, 2011. Many of the things that we have talked about in class remind me of what I witnesses during the fianl weeks and especailly during the fianll hours of my grandmothers' life.

My grandmother was very healthy person, always, At 90 years old she was wallking around, cooking, sewing, speaking about events of her life from 70 years befroe with perfecr calrity and no memeory lapses whatsoever. Never did I go a single day without speaking to her, at the very least on the phone and I always saw her a the very least once a week although usually 3 to 4 times a week. You could even say that she was like my second mother.

In June she sudddenly fell when walking to the bathroom and broke her hip. She underwent surgery under general anesthesia and came out of the surgery perfectly fine. It was while she was in rehabilitation tha tshe started gettting worse, saying she couldn't walk and her sugar, blood pressure, and heart rate were throug hthe roof. She sugar levels actaully reached 560 from the normal 130ish it's suppossed to be at for her age.

She went back and forth from the hospital for the next two months and she developed pneumonia and eventually pulmonary edema, which i fluid in her lungs and chest cavity. She started having trouble breathing and was tired of being on a bed and people poking and prodding her. She was ready to go even if we weren't ready to let her.

Like we said in class, she became more aware of what was going to be her end and she didn't want to bring it up to upset. She was giving up on wanting to live.

In the end, her breathing evened out and she lost her awareness completely, going into a daze and eventually closing her eyes for the last time. Her breathing slowed down until she fianlly stipped. She has that pale bluish skin color that was described in class and we were surprised becasue she was not dong well and she got better and then..she died.

I miss my grandmother very much and I miss her precense in my life now more than ever because I am getting married in 3 weeks and she wont be there when  always thogu hshe would. She was the first one to know about my engagement and now she wont be there in person but defenitely in spirit.

Assisted Suicide

I believe assisted suicide should be legal everywhere. It should be your decision when you think it is your time to go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXzSWUIIKgI&feature=related

This video has a clip from the movie Million Dollar Baby. It is at the end when Hilary Swank is laying in a hospital bed suffering as she ask Clint Eastwood to please help her end her life. In this short clip you can see the powerful and emotional pain they are both going through. Assisted suicide is a way to allow someone, like Hilary Swank in Million Dollar Baby to have a good death. To stop the pain and suffering of their end to life.

In Time Movie

The other day I stumbled upon this movie called "In Time" (2011). It recently has aired in theaters and I am highly interested with the idea. The movie's plot is about a future society where the currency is time. People stop aging at the age of 25 but are only able to live for one more year and the only way to live a youthful immortality is to buy time. Everyone has a timer on their wrist showing how much time each individual has.

I have yet to see this movie, but simply reading the plot makes me think of how people are so quick to opt for more time in this world in fear of dying. This movie really represents society's view on death and how everyone really wishes we can all live forever young.

Pumped up Kicks

I am sure most of you have heard the song "Pumped up Kicks" by Foster the People on the radio. I love this song becausw it is so different than any other song that is currently on the radio, especially because of the lyrics. At first, I did not know what this song was about, but after looking at the lyrics, I found out that this song is actually about death. Not only is the song about death, but it is about death from the killer's standpoint. This song gives us an upbeat outlook on death from a perspective that we wouldn't normally see it from.

Deaths at rapid amounts

This picture represents the Black Plague, also known as Black Death. During this plague so many lost their live at such rapid amount. The Black Death was unmanageable. With bodies and bodies laying off to the side of the road people were angry and become obsessed with giving their loved ones proper burials. This spend to more and more people caughting and spreading it. Also, people become obsessed with different types of rituals like becoming flagellants. Which is whipping their own bodies bloody and travelling from town to town proclaiming the plague a punishment from God, which of course kept the spread going.