Many people in the world fear death, and I have got to say that I do not blame them. I can not think of one person who just willingly wants to die. No one wants to leave the things and the people they love. A proven statistic about Necrophobia, also known as the fear of death, is that 68% of the United States population suffer from this phobia. (Fear/Phobia Statistics) No one wants to die, yet that is the destination we all share. More than half of the world fears death, and writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer and Edgar Allen Poe do the best at conveying this fear.
A piece of literature that does a very incredible job of conveying the fear of death would be “The Pardoner’s Tale” by Geoffrey Chaucer. In the beginning of the story three friends …show more content…
Poe describes the disease as “No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution.” Even though this disease was so horrendous Prince Prospero, the leader of the country, had no sympathy for those dying in his country. The only citizens that the prince cared about was his nearest and dearest friends. In order to save himself and his friends he decided to throw a party and lock all of them inside of his kingdom. He thought that if they were all inside then there would be no way death would reach them. The guests laugh and dance all night, until all of a sudden the clock strikes midnight. They all notice a dark creepy silhouette, who has recently died of the Red Death. This guy makes his way through the palace spreading his disease and killing everyone in the palace one by one. This story conveys the fear of death excellent because the prince was so scared of death that he locked him and his friends into his kingdom just to protect them from it. Inevitably enough though the disease caught up to them just like everyone else. Death gets us …show more content…
The truth is that I do not know. Maybe it it because we all want to breathe another day with our loved ones cuddled up next to us, or maybe just because we are afraid of what death might feel like. I believe that everyone has their time. When we are meant to die we will. However, In my personal life I have noticed a trend. Everyone I know who is healthy and doing well is afraid to die or afraid to get hurt. Yet everyone I know who is sick and elderly honestly wants to die. They want the pain to be over and to go on to Heaven. So maybe we are only afraid of death until we feel the beginning stages of it. Or maybe those people who say they are ready to go to Heaven are only ready to go there because they believe that in Heaven you do not physically feel death itself and you continue to live. We will never be able to know because everyone that could tell us the true answer has already been taken by
A piece of literature that does a very incredible job of conveying the fear of death would be “The Pardoner’s Tale” by Geoffrey Chaucer. In the beginning of the story three friends …show more content…
Poe describes the disease as “No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution.” Even though this disease was so horrendous Prince Prospero, the leader of the country, had no sympathy for those dying in his country. The only citizens that the prince cared about was his nearest and dearest friends. In order to save himself and his friends he decided to throw a party and lock all of them inside of his kingdom. He thought that if they were all inside then there would be no way death would reach them. The guests laugh and dance all night, until all of a sudden the clock strikes midnight. They all notice a dark creepy silhouette, who has recently died of the Red Death. This guy makes his way through the palace spreading his disease and killing everyone in the palace one by one. This story conveys the fear of death excellent because the prince was so scared of death that he locked him and his friends into his kingdom just to protect them from it. Inevitably enough though the disease caught up to them just like everyone else. Death gets us …show more content…
The truth is that I do not know. Maybe it it because we all want to breathe another day with our loved ones cuddled up next to us, or maybe just because we are afraid of what death might feel like. I believe that everyone has their time. When we are meant to die we will. However, In my personal life I have noticed a trend. Everyone I know who is healthy and doing well is afraid to die or afraid to get hurt. Yet everyone I know who is sick and elderly honestly wants to die. They want the pain to be over and to go on to Heaven. So maybe we are only afraid of death until we feel the beginning stages of it. Or maybe those people who say they are ready to go to Heaven are only ready to go there because they believe that in Heaven you do not physically feel death itself and you continue to live. We will never be able to know because everyone that could tell us the true answer has already been taken by