Immortal in Death

the afterlife, death is good and peaceful and should not be something to be afraid of. Socrates eventually is put to death because he was challenging many people’s beliefs of the afterlife. Socrates was also challenging the presence of God which then led to the people wanting him to be put to death. Plato and Socrates believed that dying is a good thing because once they enter the afterlife, they will be able to go and talk to all of the famous dead people of the past. Both deaths are…

believe that there is life after death. That is because of our religion and faith that believes that there is an afterlife. The persons that believe in the afterlife are the persons in the Eastern part of the globe. These people are faithful, and some are the Chinese and Indians. Most of the Filipinos…

mankind. Shelley’s The Mortal Immortal: A Tale portrays the value of physical riches to society, while also showing the inevitability of human decease with Winzy, as he witnesses those he loves facing their destiny with death, causing him emotional pain and suffering. Poe’s The Red Masque expresses how human mortality cannot be prolonged even by the wealthy, causing all the individuals at Prince Prospero’s masquerade to be taken by the plague, known as the “Red Death”. Tolstoy’s How Much Land…

temporary tattoo on the arm of humanity, while a tattoo is the mortal soul becoming immortal by committing to the body of God. To be immortal means to go on living, regardless of events that may take place. The buzzing, whirling sound of the needle machine is that quiet stillness after the water settles around the person soon to be born again. The tattoo can not be washed away and remains on the body, even after death. The mortal soul must die because there is particular recklessness that comes…

to tell the story since he was present on Socrates’s last day. In Phaedo, there are two separate degrees of narration: Phaedo is telling Echecrates the story of Socrates and Socrates’s final philosophical discussion prior to his death. The reason for Socrates’s death was that he undermined the official religion of Athens, which made him “corrupt the youth” and simultaneously created new spiritual theories. However, Socrates’s last philosophical discussion in Phaedo isn’t even genuine: Plato…

Imagine being immortal for the rest of your life. In a second, you have the power of living forever imposed on you without your consent. Would that be amazing or tragic? That is the life of the Tucks. In Tuck Everlasting, the main characters; Angus, Mae, Miles and Jesse Tuck, experience what it is like to be immortal and Winnie Foster, a normal girl, and her experience with this family. Immortality, death and greed are key themes that make Tuck Everlasting a lesson to be learned about the value…

this epic that people can relate to. One of these themes is life and death. The Sumerians that created this story try to depict their views of mortality and how mortality can affect people and make them fear death. Some will say that one does not need to understand death in order to face reality or to have personal growth because the hardships in life can make one try to better themselves. Others will say that understanding death can crimple someone with fear because they will always know what…

Witnessing a friend's death can be dramatic and horrifying but we have learned and accepted the fact that we can't live forever, all you can really do is enjoy your life to the fullest because we don’t know when and where we will eventually die, that is why it isn’t as hard for us to take that in, it’s in our nature to accept death. On the other hand Gilgamesh witnesses Enkidu’s death, of course in a different time period, where death wasn't accepted by the gods, at least not…

In the novel Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit, the protagonist Winnie Foster is given a choice of drinking water from a spring that will make her immortal. Winnie struggles with this decision because one of the key characters Angus Tuck tells her that it’s useless and that he wishes he could grow again. Yet, Angus’s son Jesse explains to Winnie the benefits of eternal life when he states that “you can have a good time that would never be stopped. If I had the same choice as Winnie Foster, I…

survive. ELT 622. Furthermore immortality could also be described as a transcendend state of mind, which due to meditation and high concentration is able to evoke a state of escatic trance and therefore the immortality does not just means the no-death of the body but is more likely to be a state of mind. In particular a state of mind where one is more at home in the transcendence…