William Shakespear's Hamlet

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Have you ever wondered what life would be like without you? I think a lot of us have had that thought cross our minds at one point because for a moment we felt alone even when we’re surrounded by people, by friends, family. Our society today makes us question, are we worth it? All I know is that we are worth living, all of us. There’s this saying, you don’t know the value of people until they’re gone.
There is a famous saying that I took into mind, you don’t know the value of people until they’re gone. In the book, Hamlet, written by William Shakespear, Hamlet asks himself, but then in reality it’s to the audience, a question, to be or not to be? When you think about this question you realize that his question means to live or not to live? Hamlet in the story is a very depressed and an emotional character and it shows in the story his girlfriend, whom he loved, killed herself. This also make think was it worth it for her to kill herself? She did have people who cared for her but she still chose to kill herself.
In the article and video that I watched and read in class was about Roger Ebert. He was a movie critic, a well-known one. He seemed like a great guy, he had a tough personality, but other than that seemed alright. He lived life as if it was his last, and one day he got cancer. It wasn’t just cancer but jaw cancer. He had to get surgery
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We spend billions researching expensive cures for diseases that kill a relative handful of people each year, but almost nothing on researching how to raise people’s happiness. Some people look at the value of people’s life this way, like gold had no value until judgments took place appreciating its value. With the book and article it has helped me and it could help other people on the view of the value of life. Each single one of us are worth so much that money can’t buy us, so don’t listen to insurance companies because all that is a

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