Talk:Motivation and emotion/Book/2014/Death and emotion

Suggestions
Hi, hope your going well with research around this topic, I think it would be interesting if you look at emotional responses to death from a variety of cultures, being culturally diverse my self I know there are a lot of differences with emotional responses. I've also made a few additions to your page to encourage you to keep adding material. Good luckAGH BMW (discuss • contribs) 03:54, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

In Hamlet by Shakespeare, there is a monologue about death which is very interesting. Some of it is here: To die, to sleep-- No more--and by a sleep to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep-- To sleep--perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause.

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But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?

Death is first compared to sleep, than called the undiscovered country. The death anxiety experienced the children---> religious or other beliefs or superstitions are developed by adults to cope with the death anxiety---> philosophers think about the ultimate question: what is the meaning of life: this is another way human beings try to deal with death anxiety.

Death anxiety, I find this topic extremely interesting. As it is not only emotional, but also motivational. In the emotional side, I agree with AGH that cultural difference in emotional responses to death would be interesting. I am from China. I can tell you a story about a famous Taoist philosopher Zhuangzi (he is from 3rd century BC, so pretty old. He founded Taoism). It is said when his wife died, he started chiming the kitchen utensils and singing to celebrate her death. He looked very happy. You might be puzzled? Shouldn't he cry and be sad about her death? According to zhuangzi's taoism, life is a circle (look at those Taichi symbols, you will know). So being born is the beginning of death, and dying is the beginning of life. Thinking in this way, death is not a sad thing, simply going to the next stage of the eternal circle, so should be celebrated. Well, if you are going to contrast the cultural differences when responding to death, you could use this story. But there is a note: not all Chinese people sing and dance when their family members die! But in areas where Taoism is influential, like my area, we do hire a village trope to sing and perform and give out big banquets when a family member passes away. We treat our deceased loved ones as if they were alive. For example, we cook food for them, post money and new paper houses to them (all in a symbolic way). --Xlc (discuss • contribs) 21:30, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

Death Anxiety
I think you could look at this topic in a few different ways. There are of course the immediate effects on emotion after experiencing the death of a loved one. I'm sure there are heaps of studies on this. But I think what you could also look at is Death Anxiety theories - Terror Management Theory being one of them - which is basically our response, not to immediate death, but to the appraisal of death as an inevitability. I think this could give your chapter a nice multidimensional kind of approach, grounded both in empiricism (immediate responses) and more intangible psychological theory. Good luck! Joelthebaws (discuss • contribs)

APA style captions for images and tables
I recommend using APA style captions i.e., Figure 1, Figure 2 etc. for all images, graphs etc. and Table 1, Table 2 etc. for all tables. The caption text should not be in italics. For more detail and examples, see http://libguides.newcastle.edu.au/content.php?pid=113807&sid=1208571 -- Jtneill - Talk - c 11:29, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

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