HW 49 - Comments on Best of Your Break HW

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Dean,

Your preparation for your interviews truly made your experience as well as mine an uplifting one. your wonderings and questions brought about great topics and got out great answers from your interviewees. i thought it was great how you pointed out the statistics on cremation in the U.S and how that's truly significant.

Harry,

What i liked most about your blogs is that you gave me and the audience different religious perspectives on caring for the dead. a christian and Jewish one. i thought i was very interesting how you pointed out that religion gives individuals some sort of agenda or objective when there dealt with death of a loved one. people usually do not go against there typical and dominant practices. this makes me wonder how different cultures and country's handle death?

Omar,

"But does funneling money into a funeral or burial or whatever it may be make much of a difference?". This line stuck out to m. you made your point of view on caring for dead noticed, yet very significant. were now seeing that the funeral system and the actual tendencies and rituals of our culture when it comes to caring for the dead are all industrialized. many things in our structured society are pointless, and its crazy to see that funerals and burials are apart of it.

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Dean,
I thought that it was a great idea to purposely interview people with that you knew would each probably have different opinions on the care of the dead. When I did my interviews I was not sure what their opinions would be or if their opinions would be similar or different from each other. I also really liked how instead of copying and pasting three interviews in your blog, you decided to write out the interviews as a "story" with narration and quotes!

Chris Calan,
I thought it was interesting how you pointed out how death can distract people from life. It's a difficult topic for somepeople because it may hit close to home however you managed to analyze the people in the interviews idealogy and relate to their POV despite if it was similar to yours or not.

Cristine Foger,
This was a great post Tamiko. your preparation and interest in the topic of caring for dead really shows through your writing. The quotes from those you interviewed and your analysis gave nice insights. your connection between the rich and the poor and the costliness of the typical burials and funerals were very significant and engaging. keep up the good work Tamiko.

Harry,
I like the way you compared and contrasted your younger brothers thoughts with your older brothers thoughts and saw that in the end both of their view points helped you question the dominant social practices involved in funerals. How we often use funerals as a way for feeling bad for the dead (sort of moarning the dead rather than celebrating the life they once lived). Most people never really question how we can treat death other than to hold a funeral.