How Does Death Affect Human Life

In modern day U.S. we hold a higher standard to human societies of the past. However, it was not too long ago humans watched the weak and the strong fight to the death for sport in the Colosseum. In the Colosseum the spilling of blood was part of the entertainment. Today we would most likely view this as a barbaric activity to watch. Although our television shows do not accentuate a more adept society as most would like to think. Most adult television shows that are popular have some kind of violence involved, crime shows, and horror films are some of the easiest examples. We enjoy the excitement of death. Although these deaths are fake, they are very graphic and many a lot more than anything a citizen of Rome could see from his seat in the Colosseum. Present day television glorifies …show more content…
Humans have a serious interest in subjects surrounding death. By adulthood, most people consider death as simply an aspect of life. The question that most won’t ask is how does death affect the rest of human life? Death affects us in a number of ways, for humans, mostly emotionally. When we detach emotion we can however look at this from a more enlightened stance. As emotions (being “human”) tend to cloud our normal appeal of death. We do not usually view it as an effect on society. Hearing about a mass shooting only momentarily affects us in our day, and usually it is about the immorality of the act. We can see value from an enlightened stance. These people have done the dirty work that has helped the rest of human society. They have expanded the time that our precious resources will be left for. Human nature is sinful, all a person would need to do is watch the news; that’s all they usually care about. With the interest of the rest of humankind and its preservation, our populations need to be decreased or the world will suffer the effects of negligence from our overuse of our