Fear of Death
Why do people have the tendency to fear death? Some people can accept death, like the elderly. They know they have reached their time and they are ready for the next big step in life, but they don’t fear death they have a fear of dying.People are also afraid of death because they don’t want to be separated from their loved ones or they might not have done of what they wanted to accomplish. Also death can be used as a joke or as some kind of revenge, like teenagers. “ There is a great danger here: Teenagers having a low fear of death may use suicide as a form of communication. Because the immortality feeling is strong, suicide can be used as a form of revenge. "If I kill myself I will get even with my girlfriend …show more content…
Pretty much what this means is that people can become greedy and not think just like in the Pardoner’s Tale, they all drank, gambled, and stole and then they became so consumed about their own wants and greeds, then a disease called plague it killed everybody that had it, pretty much what it was, was that if rats came in you got it, it was from the fleas on the rats that gave the disease so they wanted to find death so they could live and not leave their sinful lives, but then they got distracted by the gold coins, that they forgot all about death and they just wanted the gold to themselves and greed consumed them then death got to kill them all.
Like I said before the Pardoner’s Tale is all about greed for example:” The youngest draws the short straw. After he leaves, the other two buddies decide kill him when he gets back. Why split the gold three ways when you can do it two ways?” (Chaucer). but when the youngest went to town, he was buying rat poisen to kill the two other guys so instead of splitting it into three like it was planned, he was going to keep it all for …show more content…
If you are happy and have people to go to for comfort and happiness, or if you want to do something in your life you have not accomplished yet and you want to do that first, you want to run away from death and some people are afraid of the unknown ( most likely the people who are happy with there lives) because some people believe in heaven and hell and some people are not really sure what they believe in and all they know is that they can do things on earth and they are not sure what to do or where they will go if they die. I also have experience with the fear of death, I lost my grandpa and my grandma, and I still wonder where they went to, maybe they went to heaven. I honestly don’t know where people go but when I lost them, I wasn’t scared of dying because I was still grieving their death. Now, I am a little scared to die, I don’t know if I will be with my loved one’s or if I will be seperated from them. My grandma before she died, all her family members died before her, she had six siblings and she was the oldest. She had 5 children, 2 are still living today. Her first child died when she was 1 year’s old. My grandma grieved over that child for so long but she had other children to
Why do people have the tendency to fear death? Some people can accept death, like the elderly. They know they have reached their time and they are ready for the next big step in life, but they don’t fear death they have a fear of dying.People are also afraid of death because they don’t want to be separated from their loved ones or they might not have done of what they wanted to accomplish. Also death can be used as a joke or as some kind of revenge, like teenagers. “ There is a great danger here: Teenagers having a low fear of death may use suicide as a form of communication. Because the immortality feeling is strong, suicide can be used as a form of revenge. "If I kill myself I will get even with my girlfriend …show more content…
Pretty much what this means is that people can become greedy and not think just like in the Pardoner’s Tale, they all drank, gambled, and stole and then they became so consumed about their own wants and greeds, then a disease called plague it killed everybody that had it, pretty much what it was, was that if rats came in you got it, it was from the fleas on the rats that gave the disease so they wanted to find death so they could live and not leave their sinful lives, but then they got distracted by the gold coins, that they forgot all about death and they just wanted the gold to themselves and greed consumed them then death got to kill them all.
Like I said before the Pardoner’s Tale is all about greed for example:” The youngest draws the short straw. After he leaves, the other two buddies decide kill him when he gets back. Why split the gold three ways when you can do it two ways?” (Chaucer). but when the youngest went to town, he was buying rat poisen to kill the two other guys so instead of splitting it into three like it was planned, he was going to keep it all for …show more content…
If you are happy and have people to go to for comfort and happiness, or if you want to do something in your life you have not accomplished yet and you want to do that first, you want to run away from death and some people are afraid of the unknown ( most likely the people who are happy with there lives) because some people believe in heaven and hell and some people are not really sure what they believe in and all they know is that they can do things on earth and they are not sure what to do or where they will go if they die. I also have experience with the fear of death, I lost my grandpa and my grandma, and I still wonder where they went to, maybe they went to heaven. I honestly don’t know where people go but when I lost them, I wasn’t scared of dying because I was still grieving their death. Now, I am a little scared to die, I don’t know if I will be with my loved one’s or if I will be seperated from them. My grandma before she died, all her family members died before her, she had six siblings and she was the oldest. She had 5 children, 2 are still living today. Her first child died when she was 1 year’s old. My grandma grieved over that child for so long but she had other children to