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Death

Death. Peace or Fear?. The Cemetery. I wasn’t expecting my visit to the cemetery to bring me to tears but I could not help myself when I saw . . . The Cemetery.

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Death

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  1. Death Peace or Fear?

  2. The Cemetery I wasn’t expecting my visit to the cemetery to bring me to tears but I could not help myself when I saw . . .

  3. The Cemetery I pictured a mother or father kneeling next to their child’s grave, using nothing but their own finger to try and commemorate their child’s life by carving the letters in wet cement. Are the jumbled and backward letters a result of fear? Could this family have felt peace when they could not properly mark the grave of their deceased baby and deal with the loss of their child?

  4. The Cemetery As I searched the cemetery, I had deep feelings of love, loss, and regret. They were more than I’ve allowed myself to feel in a long time. I came upon a chasm in the ground. It was waiting for a casket holding the body of a person whose life was over. It stopped me in my tracks. It was a deep, dark hole that spoke of finality on this earth. It forced me to think about my life.

  5. The Cemetery These graves are marked with a Pioneer marker. The two gravestones below are for the couple’s young sons.

  6. The Cemetery This gravestone shows no fear. The nickname on the gravestone makes me think that though the child died, she was loved and fondly thought of when she was laid to rest.

  7. Beliefs Aiden is a member of our family. We celebrate his short life on his birthday every year and will remember him always. My brother said that he and my sister-in-law know that their beliefs have helped them deal with the loss they feel when they think about their son. They hold onto the hope that they will see their son again someday. This is an award-winning picture of my nephew’s feet and his mother’s hand holding him.

  8. Beliefs “See ya’ later Grandpa.”

  9. When I asked the mortician why he thought people feared death, he quickly answered, “Fear of the unknown.”

  10. Beliefs This class has taught me so much. I learned about different cultures, beliefs and sometimes disturbing histories, like the Holocaust.

  11. Beliefs It’s not about how you die, it’s about how you live.

  12. Beliefs We can feel peace if we believe in a higher power, no matter what that higher power is.

  13. Conclusion Death is not fear if we live our beliefs. If we surrender to a higher power and allow it to guide us through this life, we will not fear. There is peace in death.

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