For this blog entry, I chose to relate it to the video we recently viewed in class, The Namesake. As I was watching the film, it came to my attention that, although my blog topic and Ashoki dying are not excatly the same, the outcomes of each were very similiar. In the Namesake, when Ashoki died it came as a shock and a hardship for everyone involved. Ashoki's wife was absolutely devestated. She had never lived on her own and this was to be a different type of transition than she had ever experienced. She went from living with her parents, to getting married and living with her husband. However, even though she was going through her own personal devestation about her husband's unexpected death, she still had to be strong for her children. This has to be an amount of pressure that is nearly unbearable. I don't see how people do this. Maybe I can't see it because I don't have children of my own, but I find it very hard to understand. Like my last blog entry, I began to wonder if the fact that Ashoki was in middle adulthood made his death harder on his family. I was thinking that, although I am sure the sadness took precedence, Ashima was probably worried about how she would support herself finicially as well as emotionally. I suppose with terminal illness one may have more time to get their affairs in order, but I cannot imagine it makes the loss any easier on the family. However, with sudden death, such as Ashoki's, what is one's family to do? When I began to think about this, it scared me. I thought of my mother. My stepfather has always been the worker, while my mother was a house wife that stayed home with the children. If he was to die, I do not know what my mother would do. She depends completely on his income for survival. I wonder how many people actually experience this nightmare.