Coping with Death

Death is a concept that people in today's society rather not hear, nor deal with. People get intimidated and scared when they are unexpectedly confronted with death either through friends, loved ones, or themselves personally. Each person is entitled to deal with death or news about a death in any way that makes them feel comfortable, as in Morrie's situation, where he feels the need to communicate with others about his personal experience with dying. Unlike like Ivan's death experience, where he cannot seem to communicate to anyone about anything that troubles his mind, as well as his fears about his disease. The lack of communicational skills leaves Ivan alone to suffer through his dying days alone.
Morrie was a college professor who automatically had the communicational skills. …