Till Death Do Us Part

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endence on his wife and physical decline is an unnatural thing for him and takes a toll on his psyche. Micah’s identity as provider could also be questioned in his lack of ability to provide his wife with services and his new need for assistance. It may also be taken into consideration that he may never fully accept his new role as ‘needy’ to the family. The last stage of Erickson’s theory of personality development; ego integrity and despair explains how people of Micah’s age group tend to look back and evaluate what “we have done with our lives”. This evaluation will produce feelings of satisfaction or commonly a sense of despair or disappointment (as cited in Byrne, 2004).
Developing a perspective about death occurs throughout ones life but become resolved in later adulthood. Micah’s stroke seemed to stimulate renewed interest for both Micah and Rachel in clarifying their ideas about death. How much is it a personal activity? What might be some possible conflicts between the shared and the personal ideas about death?
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