Grief is a natural part of life. At some point or another, everyone will experience it. The process of grieving is an important. By doing this people are able to get their feelings out and eventually get over what they were grieving about. Though the person might not ever forget what happened , they will instead come to terms with it and move on. These memories of them are important to keep. Victoria Junior talks about how important these memories are when she said that, “..talking about the loved one, acting on the values and concerns of the deceased and celebrating rituals are examples of keeping memories of the deceased alive. Rituals can be an important part of human existence regardless of life’s experiences” (Junior, 3). By keeping the memories alive, people are able to focus on the positives of the deceased life instead of dwelling on the fact that they are no longer with us. In Dollhouse, it’s learned that November is there because she wanted the memory of the death of her child erased. It’s hard for me to understand why someone would want that memory erased. If the memory of the death is erased, then any memory of her child would also have to be erased. I don’t feel that a death is a good reason for completely forgetting about someone. Like Victoria Junior said, their life needs to be celebrated. There are better ways of dealing with death that forgetting about the person all together.
Junior, Victoria Young. "Helping Female Inmates Cope With Grief and Loss." Corrections Today 65.3 (2003): 76. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 31 Jan. 2011.
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