Death: One Way Ticket To Depression

       
           Death can be powerful mentally, even if a fish or a distant relative. But if you know this person  (or animal) well, the impact will be much greater. There are stages you will encounter. It may be hard. Sometimes it can be powerful enough to take one's life.  If you pass, though, you will be stronger than before. The Tiger's Wife, is a good example of encountering death and how to deal with it. The main character, Natalia, has a grandfather who died mysteriously. She starts to unravel the truth of her grandfather with help from his book he kept with him all his life.  She needs to deal with the sudden event causing her to go through the trials one by one.

           Stage 1: Shock. People take this stage in various ways. Some are more emotional earlier, while some have no feelings or emotions until later, then you start to break. Either way, you are being impacted by the sudden news given to you. In the book, The Tiger's Wife, when Natalia is given the news about her grandfather, she was surprised at the fact that she wasn't devastated. But later in the book, when she is picking up her grandfather's bag, she starts to realize he is truly dead. That leads to stage 2: Remembering. After someone dies, you start to remember the memories you had together. In the book, Natalia starts to remember how much her grandfather impacted her life. Because of him, she is who she is. Her love for tigers, her job as a doctor, and her ways at looking at the world. She starts to relive moments of her childhood. For example, she was in a zoo with her Grandfather feeding the tigers and other animals and how she used a stick to drag it against the gates. She especially remembers the tiny details in the memories. Stage 3: Depression. After Natalia got his stuff, she was afraid of looking inside his bag. She felt as if she would open it, she would feel even more horrible than before. This is normal. Of coarse, you will feel depressed by the fact a part of your life is gone forever. This is the part on the trials that is where the only way to heal your pain is time, excepting the death, and a whole lot of alcohol. Your mental wounds will heal, but there will always be a scar in place.


           There are 3 stages you have to pass when dealing with death. It is like being stuck in cage with a tiger. You can try to run away, but in the end you can either give up, or take it on. Stage 1: Shock. It's the running away part in my simile. You are in shock and running away from the truth. Stage 2: Remembering. It's where you start to decide to either give up, or face it head on. Stage 3: Depression. That's the part where you are being attacked. You made your decision, you can give up later on, or not. Natalia, in the end, won the fight with the tiger. Some may not be as lucky, but she did. The trials of death are hard, but not impossible.