Illness and dying sounds like a very good and interesting topic in my opinion because i always wondering how illness and dying effects us in our daily lives. And i experienced illness and dying in my family and throughtout the years that i was born. Recently i experienced a death of my cousin from his battle of cancer, at the funeral it was sad people were crying and people were all quiet. But it was pretty weird towards the ending of the funeral because people were yelling his name out and laughing i guess he got what he wished for, he wanted people to celebrate and not cry when he died.
I've been taught to see illness and dying as a bad thing and also as a sad thing also. When i was growing up my parents well mostly my mother always told me to act right at a funeral and to show respect for people. And of course to never laugh. In the year 1999 my grandmother died and i cried a lot for three days. My parents showed that somebody dying or being very ill is a sad and also an emotional thing. So i grew up knowing how to act when it comes to these unfortunate situations.
The possible social norms that people follow in our culture really depends on how the person was raised and how their famalies were brought up also. But the most typical norms for us Americans to follow when somebody died and is somebody is really sick is to normally be sad or depressed. Like if your loved one is in the hospital is really sick and the doctor comes out quietly you normally would be scared to hear bad news; once you hear that your loved one has died the people who are there would suddenly cry and go crazy and all the doctor would do is seclude themselves from the family. But usually people would be in a depressed state for a while until they get over it. Once you die people will cry for you but then after the years they will start to forget about you and then they will eventually stop visiting you in the cementary. What a nice price to pay from your own family...
