Part I: Death is unknown, and it really comes down to how you perceive the inevitable. Cognition’s role is to process thought, and feelings towards death need to be processed with acceptance, which in turn brings peace. The concept of death isn’t personal until you’re the person death is happening to. The five sub concepts of death aren’t taken seriously until probably causation.
For example, teenagers “cognitive control networks are underdeveloped and “stress reactivity and sensation-seeking impulses emanating from the brain’s emotional/ social network” can convince them they have control over death. The anxiety associated to the unknown is felt by younger people because of their inexperience with death itself.“Compared to earlier generations, today more young people reach adulthood without having experienced death of someone they know well (Morgan, Laungani, &Palmer, 2009) (Berk,p.648) because those that are dying are attended to in facilities, instead of at homecare, like they were in the past; young people may not have been directly exposed to the final biological moments and the uncertainty can mixed feelings. Old folks are situated in the human condition and have grown to accept our fate as mortals. “Increasing evidence of mortality comes from physical changes, higher rates of illness and disability, and loss of relatives and friends” (Berk, p.650) this shifts older adults’ attention and concern of the details and can gear them into settling their affairs.Lastly, “People with well-developed, positive personal philosophy of death are also less fearful” meaning those who have been able to contemplate death and mind frame their core beliefs of the state of death are less anxious or fearful about it
Part II: It would behoove Noreen to have effective communications with any medical clinician tracking her case as she ages. A good medical practice is to be in charge of your medical treatment; if she is dying of old age then this will grant her “maximum personal control over this final phase” (Berk, p.648) If Noreen can anticipate when death is most likely to occur then she can make arrangements for last wishes or final decisions of her after-life care.This question can not be addressed without mentioning “appropriate priate death” (Worden, 2000) because this approach emphasizes ‘maintaining and enhancing close relationships’ (Berk,654) which is a social practice that Noreen is obliged to if she wish to say goodbye to loved ones, as well as “confronting and preparing for death (Goldsteen et al., 2006; Kleespies, 2004; Proulx & Jacelon, 2004;Reinke et al., 2
