Naked in Death

decided it was time to see a doctor. Overtime Ivan began to feel more and more depressed that he couldn’t enjoy a game of cards with his friends. One night while lying alone, Ivan realized that his illness is not a question of health, but of life or death. A boring bureaucrat gets sick, feels sorry for himself and dies. So what? What does this matter? Every life has meaning and should matter. My life matters and you’re life matters but why should the life of Ivan Ilych, a bureaucrat, sick man…

In the movie, The Fault In Our Stars, the main characters Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters interact with each other in a support group for people with terminal medical conditions like theirs. They grow fond of one another and Augustus uses his death wish to travel to Amsterdam along with Hazel and her mother to meet the famous author, Peter Van Houten, who turns out to be a heartless alcoholic. Although their foregather was unpleasant with the author, during the trip Augustus declares his love…

“Tell me something I can hold on to forever and never let go” Were the soft spoken words of Adaline Bowman, after she had found someone she cared deeply about, but she knew they could never be together. Adaline was a woman who lost her husband during the making of the Golden Gate bridge. After the fact of her husband dying it was not long before Adaline at the age of twenty-eight years old got in a car wreck that sent her flying into a frozen lake. The water was so cold it nearly killed her…

Physician-assisted suicide has been a hot debate topic for quite some time. People claim that physician-assisted suicide is just plain suicide, while some believe it is the right of the patient to end their own life when burdened by a terminal illness. Countries around the world have made physician-assisted suicide legal. The most famous country for physician-assisted suicide is the Netherlands. Here at home, the United States has five states that allow physician-assisted suicide while the other…

unique relationship between death and sin according to the biblical tradition. The paper will deal exclusively with death as it pertains to humankind. In presenting my understanding of the unique relationship between death and sin, I will share my personal experience with death, define death, explain why humankind dies, distinguish physical and spiritual death, and show the relationship between human sin and death. Until about three years ago, my life had been free of death when it comes to my…

Such as being able to make the choice to be in peace rather than suffer, similar to seeing a light at an end of a tunnel. Being given the option to choose how and when to end one’s life is an opportunity for us as humans to defy the possible pains of death caused from sickness. This is beneficial for patients due to the outcome of not being forced to fight the disease longer than they feel they want to. Living day by day consistently miserable is discouraging to the person dealing with the…

A Rose for Emily Upon reading Faulkner’s Miss Emily, one feels a sense of despair for the poor woman who died alone and friendless. Further reading shows that her friendlessness could very well be her own fault or perhaps caused by something that she could not control. If we look behind the words that Faulkner gave us, can we find another version of Miss Emily that what is painted in his black and white words? A second reading can leave one feeling aggravated with Faulkner for his lack of…

physician assisted suicide is determined by past experiences with the terminally ill (). Although, some people call assisted suicide a sin, it should be legal because it provides a terminally ill person a less painful, more dignified, and cheaper death. Sin is word that can have a controversial…

refined interest in the sciences sharply contrasted his outer situation, proving that his misery came from a complex situation (Wharton 15). Ethan lived in a “complete absence of atmosphere”, forced to end his studies prematurely after his father’s death (Wharton 24). He could not control this; therefore, he was not responsible for this aspect of his misery.…

The Women Who Lives in a Timeless Vacuum “A Rose for Emily” by Willian Faulkner focuses on the life and death of Emily Grierson, a tragic tale of a woman who is doomed in the effort to resist the forces of times and change. Emily’s story is told in flashbacks that reveal her life through the time before her death. Emily lives a reclusive life dominated by the patriarchal rulings of her father and her social values. Her upbringing is confined by the Southern social system and her father, the…