A Happy Death

Death is a dreadful ending to any story that is written. It also brings a different kind of feeling to the end of the thoughts about the character. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” and Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour,” the female characters’ deaths are not always an awful ending to a life that was already suffering. In “The Birthmark,” Georgiana reaches a time in her life where her husband has taken control of her mentally and physically; she didn’t realize that her death would be…

their religion. The Chinese religion has two ways of looking at death one is “happy ending” and the other is a “sad ending” both reflect a person’s death and have two very different ways of taking care of the dead. A “happy ending is a joyful ending someone who lived a happy fulfilling life. A “sad ending” is an abrupt ending and it is said to have cut a person’s life short. As opposed that of the Judaism tradition which thinks of death as a natural part of life. Rituals…

didn’t want to take care of him. He also says how many other people died and that he was surrounded by coffins due to a lot of deaths. This proves how unhappy he was and how this impacted him a lot. He suffers and in different kind of words he provides evidence that he always expects deaths. This kind of dissapointments leads to depression like the one he gets into after every death.…

monkey paw the sun Herbert I believe is to blame for his own death. Since Herbert was making jokes about mystical forces, I think that’s the reason he died, he said were going to be rich and famous wish to be true. “. While he is joking this is a serious matter. He also said, “the tale about the monkeys paw is more truthful than those he has been telling us, “so once again he could he was joking about mystical forces. He wished death on himself by saying, “he might drop on his head from the…

Understanding Death Death is something most people have to deal with, but no one really knows how to cope with it. Olive Ann Burns writes a novel about a young boy who tries to cope with multiple deaths throughout his life. This novel is named Cold Sassy Tree, based off of some of the stories Burns father told her when she was a child. Cold Sassy Tree is placed in the early 1900s in a small town called Cold Sassy. The main character, Will Tweedy, goes through multiple big events in his…

states “Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, ...news of her husband’s death.” “Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break her as gently as possible” (line 1-2). The evidence shows that Josephine and Richards expect Mrs.Mallard to react in a dismal way. Mrs. Mallard’s private reaction is ironic because she is happy about the death of her husband. “She said it over and over under her breath: ‘free, free,free!’” (line 47) …

story are Louise Mallard, Brently Mallard, Josephine, Richards. The story is about how Louise Mallard seems very depressed and sad because of the death of her husband and after her husband's death she feels relieved but then she gets news that her husband is really not dead. The story of an hour shows a shows the way Louise gains freedom due to death of her husband and in the story the readers are seeing the struggle she goes through. The story of an hour is called this because it’s the time…

many years to figure out that my mother would not have wanted me to dwell on her death. If I had known about this poem by Christina Rossetti when I was dealing with the grief of my mother’s passing, I would have recovered from her loss much faster than I actually did. In “Remember,” Rossetti’s strong use of tone helps me understand the poem’s theme that when remembering someone, know that person would rather you be happy. This poem written by Christina Rossetti includes many phrases that…

Narrator, Wen-jie Quin, returns to a place of her childhood in order to video the death of Master Jue Cheng in the documentary "To the Land of Bliss." Master Jue Cheng died due to a virus infection that had paralyzed his legs. There are only a few masters left now that Master Jue Chen has died. She shows the process that occur after death such as the ritual called “Releasing the Burning Mouths.” This ritual is for those who may have been reborn as hungry ghosts. The hungry ghosts are constantly…

Camus and Epicurus have a couple views in common. They both believe death is the end of all suffering and sensation, people have control of their own destiny, and everyone has the right to live and die. Death is the deprivation of sensation, and after death there is nothing, nor do we feel anything. Camus’s big question is whether or not life is worth living. That each person has the right to choose whether to live or die. People who commit suicide have made the decision for themselves, “All…