Sandhya Thapa

 

 

  Role of the Media: Understanding Death Fascination for the Prevention of Suicide Picture Source: https://www.bing.com/images   Death Fascination is an existing phenomenon in the hitherto society. Death is an inevitable and uncertain reality.  However, some sad soul embraces it leaving every living body speculating. Some have taken death as a cannot be waited phenomenon. For instance, as Emily Dickinson has stated beautifully in her poem “ Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me.” Likewise, another poet Sylvia Plath’s poem echoes an essence of death fascination in her poem Lady Lazarus, where she defines dying as an art. In her own words, “Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it. In the world of literature death is presented with vivid images to remark death but nothing is as apparently presented as in the poem Wanting Death by Anne Sexton. Her affirmation of death in life is explicitly presented in the verse than P...