For this homework I decided to interview a few very close people to me. I interviewed my friend who I have known all my life. My college friend who I speak to very often. Then I spoke to my middle school friend. For the first interview I spoke to my long time friend who have a very existential mind set. I asked him what does he think about the idea that what we do know won't matter once we die. He said that he understands that which is why he loves to do what he does. He lives with few rules because he believes that to like well one must have a very small concious but still need to be smart. Another question I asked was if he and his family have any special rituals for the people who pass away in his family? He said, "no we just have the standard funeral and that's it, but I don't really go to a lot of funerals cuz I don't have so much family here." What do you think about caring for the dead? Do you think its important to treat the dead as if they were still here? " I don't know cuz that pretty scary. Once a person in my family dies then its pretty simple from there on we usually forget to see them or clean their resting place or even say their name. The memories kinda fade."
The next person I interviewed was a female college friend who I haven't known for that long. She felt weird that I asked her these questions but it was cool. I asked her if she thought that treating the dead well was important. She said, " I don't think it is because treating the live is better and more important. Once someone dies I'm not saying that we have to disrespect them I'm saying that maybe we shoudnt dwell on them for so long. Life is about survival and we are all like little bugs and once one dies we keep going so nothing really stops us from living." Have you had any special things you have done for the dead in ur family? "I don't know if we have. I mean we creamated before but is that special? We have also sent someone back to the country they were born at to make it more sentimental and it was more emotional because the person was back home so it felt like he really was just on vacation.
The last person I interviewed was my middle school friend who I have spoke to multiple times in the past for class. He's very afraid when it comes to emotional topics such as this. So what do you think about caring for the dead? Do you think its important that the family sees and touches the body after death? " I have never done that. If I go to a funeral I just sit mad far away. I hate seein people like that cuz its like a week ago they were still alive. Its hard to go up there and see the person because they look different and they feel like they are fake and they say nothing so its weird. I think it is important to respect the dead in every way we can though." Is there any tradition your family has that shows respect for the dead. " well we usually all get together and just sit in our house kind of silent but then someone pulls out a picture or we just all talk about the person who died and then it becomes a memory thing and we relive the memories of the person so we feel like they are still with us."
I looked at the answers and I found something worth quoting in the first interview. I saw that my friend saied that in order to live a meaningful good life we must lower our concious. That was very interesting because living with a lower conscious may mean that we die happier. I feel like this was very important and that it can depict the way we treat the dead. We may either respect them for the way they lived or we may not becuaw we may feel that the way they lived wasn't up to par with everyone else. This topic is very tough because most of my friends did not expect this to be asked and most people don't think about this.
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