Reflection About Death

Death is the end of one’s life. Death cannot be predicted or prevented. There are many different causes of death. People die from chronic diseases, world disasters, unexpected tragedies, etc. To me death is losing someone you know, care about, love, have feelings for, etc. Death to me is losing someone period. Death to me is scary, sad, emotional and hard. In this paper, I will discuss my experiences I have had with death. In May of this year (2016), I lost my grandmother. She died of stomach cancer. My relationship with her was distant. I say distant because growing up my parents did not teach me the importance of family. Growing up we did not attend family functions. My family was always the outcast. As I grew up and was able to take

He was also in his senior year of high school. Unfortunately, his senior year was cut short. He died because of a heroin overdose. The story has never truly been told, but in high school, the story was him and his friend tried the drug for the first time and he did not make it. I chose to write about him because the whole school was taken by surprise by his death and everyone was devastated. I would consider my relationship with him as close. By close I mean we attended the same high school for four years, we shared the same classes and we spoke every day. He was a football player and I was a cheerleader. I still remember the day I found out about his death. I was at cheerleading practice and one of the girls who I cheered with received a text message regarding his death and once she started to cry, the whole team knew what it was about and stopped everything and cried. His funeral was a closed casket funeral and was full of people. There were three different times to attend and each time was packed. All of the chairs were full, the room was full and people crowed in the hallway. At one of the services, the football coach gave my friends playing jersey to his father. His father was honored to have his jersey, but devastated by what was happening. I will never forget the death of my

Prince died due to an accidental overdose. I did not know Prince personally, but I do know his death affected a lot of people. Prince was a jazz singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. According to Hollywood Intake, Prince’s body was cremated and his family help a small private funeral. I chose to write about Prince because he had so many fans and people were so upset about his death. I know there was controversy when Beyoncé had released her “Lemonade” album on TV when people were still mourning over Prince’s death. I was saddened to see so many people