HW 53 - Independent Research A

1.)The aspect about care of the dead i would like to focus on for this research is about burial ceremonies and how for different people they are different.  The burial is the main part of care of the dead for me because when i think about taking care of someone who has died i think about a funeral and a proper burial ceremony for that individual.  Different religions have different views on what a proper burial ceremony should be.

The first article that i found was on the death and burial process of Osama bin Ladin.  Bin Ladin was buried at sea which apparently was the traditional way of an islamic burial.  I am confused as to why even though he committed such horrible crimes against america we still had the respect to give him a proper burial.  In my opinion if you were to do such horrible things then your burial ceremony should not be a respected one by any means.  The article talks about how the burial in some ways was even looked at as offensive to muslims and they believed he should have been given a normal land burial.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/world/asia/03burial.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=burial%20&st=cse

The second article that i found was about the death of three children whose mother drove them into the water and killed them all.  The most interesting thing to me about this article was that the mother was buried next to her three children.  In a situation like that i am not sure as to why they would bury the women that killed her children next to them.  Although she is still their mother she obviously did not care about her children so why would people care if she was buried next to them?  If she was asked to be buried next to her children when she died and then this happened if i was her husband or anyone of her family members i would not honor her wishes because of this horrible act of indecency.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/world/asia/03burial.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=burial%20&st=cse


2.) The person that i interviewed was an ambulance worker at the nursing home in my neighborhood the village nursing home.  I interviewed her about what it was like to have to deal with taking dying people to the hospital and sometimes having to see them die.  Although she does not deal with the burial process or not even usually the death process she says that all the stuff that she sees is just as bad as seeing them dead.  She has to deal with seeing old men and women suffer each and everyday and the thought that there is only so much she can do kills her.  Something very interesting to me that she said was that when she's driving someone to the hospital from the nursing home she feels like she's giving them the last ride of their lives and thats the last thing they will remember before they die, scary she says but unfortunately true.