INTERVIEW Essays (581 words) - Interview Assignment, Deep Sleep

Speech Interview Assignment Public Speaking 1)Are you afraid of dying? Response1 (female): Not really, it depends on the situation and how I die. Response 2 (male): No, I am not afraid of dying. Response 3(female): Of course I am afraid of dying. Who wants to die? Unfortunately I live each day each day not knowing when my time might expire. Response 4(male; phone): No, I am not afraid of dying. 2)What do you think happens when a person dies? Response 1(female): I am not sure. Maybe they go into a deep sleep, spirit at rest. Response2 (male): I am not sure I can answer this one... sorry. Response 3(female): This is puzzling, because there are so many theories on what happens after death. I remember from science class that matter is never created or destroyed, so I presume that one would have some sort of rebirth. Response 4(male; phone): Not really sure, never really thought about it. 3. After death, would you prefer to be buried or cremated? Why and why not the other one? Response 1(female): Buried, I want people to see my beautiful face for the last time. In addition, being cremated is not as meaningful as being buried. Response2 (male): Buried, being cremated is not in my family?s tradition. Response 3(Female): I would have to say cremated, funerals can bring a lot of unnecessary turmoil into the family that is really not needed. Therefore I want to be cremated. It is cheaper and it will bring about less drama. Response 4(male; phone): I would prefer to be buried as I am, because I do not want anything g fake in my grave. 4)Are you an organ donor? Response 1(female): Yes, I am an organ donor. Response 2(male): yes I am. Response3 (female): No, not an organ donor, sorry Response 4(Male; phone): No, but I do plan on it however. 5)Is the process of dying frightening to most people? Why do you think that is? Response 1(female): Yes, it is, I do not understand why but it is. Response 2(male): Yes, it is? I don?t think I can answer the second part of the question however. Response 3(female): Yes, it is frightening to most people, because it is such a gray area. Maybe as more research is conducted and published covering this topic, people will stop being afraid and accept death, it is a natural occurrence. Response 4(male; phone): Yes, because they have the thought they are supposed to live forever. Summary: I discovered that while doing the face to face (via Skype) interviews, my answers tended to be short, with an uneasy look on the face of my interviewee?s being that death is such a touchy topic. However, in comparison to the phone interview, I did get the occasional vocalized pause, however the answers were much more fluid and it seems that there was not much thought put into the responses. In my opinion the topic of death is one of those things where we all have something to say about it, we just do not want others to think badly about us. For example when interviewing number 3, she was hesitant to say that she was not an organ donor for the fear of what others might say or think. I would have never thought that interview responses would differ when asking them in different formats.