Steve Job Death
Harvey Acosta
Per.2
Prompt 2 Thesis
Steve Job’s argument that death is the only thing that makes life valuable is accurate. His view of death is that it is the major driving factor in making our lives memorable. If we were immortal, people would care less about what they do with their lives. It is evident that the fear of death exists in almost everyone, even those who are deeply religious fear dying. Death is the sole factor that gives our lives meaning and will always make life decisions for us.
The fear of death is imbedded into our brains as it is what we all fight against everyday. Everyday is a fight for survival, everyday we hope to wake up, and everyday we strive to live. Whether we like it or not we are instilled with the fight or flight response …show more content…
which keeps us away from death along with our own will for survival. People have dreams and plans of doing great things with their lives before they die.
People have a natural desire to be the best they can be, which is why we have created fictitious heroes that represent what we wish to become. Many of the heroes we have conjured up are immortal and live forever and still make their lives valuable. We create what we strive to be hence the creation of superman, the flash, the green lantern, and many more.
Death is a huge motivator to live but another reason people fear death is not just because they fear the end of life. “No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there.”(Steve Job’s Commencement address) In fact the majority of people believe in some kind of afterlife and the true fear is judgement day
which comes after death. Damnation is the real reason people fear death and decide to make their lives worth something, not for themselves but for god.
There are those who believe that life is meaningless because of death and that death is inevitable so we shouldn’t care what we leave on earth since everyone will eventually die. However, value in life is not measured by time it is measured by the meaningful moments within it. Life already has no limit on its value “until
something unheard of began to happen. The courts started to put a dollar value on a lifeafter death.”(Amanda Ripley, February 6, 2002 Time Magazine). This is exactly that, an unheard of action, because life is too valuable to have a price placed on it. Although money can try to compensate for a life it will never replace a human’s life Immortality causes people to be careless and do less to contribute to society.
Having a never ending life would end up being a worthless life because they would not make the most out of their time on earth. The only thing that pushes us to do things is our fear of having a limited time on earth. Which is why death is one of the greatest parts of life.
Per.2
Prompt 2 Thesis
Steve Job’s argument that death is the only thing that makes life valuable is accurate. His view of death is that it is the major driving factor in making our lives memorable. If we were immortal, people would care less about what they do with their lives. It is evident that the fear of death exists in almost everyone, even those who are deeply religious fear dying. Death is the sole factor that gives our lives meaning and will always make life decisions for us.
The fear of death is imbedded into our brains as it is what we all fight against everyday. Everyday is a fight for survival, everyday we hope to wake up, and everyday we strive to live. Whether we like it or not we are instilled with the fight or flight response …show more content…
which keeps us away from death along with our own will for survival. People have dreams and plans of doing great things with their lives before they die.
People have a natural desire to be the best they can be, which is why we have created fictitious heroes that represent what we wish to become. Many of the heroes we have conjured up are immortal and live forever and still make their lives valuable. We create what we strive to be hence the creation of superman, the flash, the green lantern, and many more.
Death is a huge motivator to live but another reason people fear death is not just because they fear the end of life. “No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there.”(Steve Job’s Commencement address) In fact the majority of people believe in some kind of afterlife and the true fear is judgement day
which comes after death. Damnation is the real reason people fear death and decide to make their lives worth something, not for themselves but for god.
There are those who believe that life is meaningless because of death and that death is inevitable so we shouldn’t care what we leave on earth since everyone will eventually die. However, value in life is not measured by time it is measured by the meaningful moments within it. Life already has no limit on its value “until
something unheard of began to happen. The courts started to put a dollar value on a lifeafter death.”(Amanda Ripley, February 6, 2002 Time Magazine). This is exactly that, an unheard of action, because life is too valuable to have a price placed on it. Although money can try to compensate for a life it will never replace a human’s life Immortality causes people to be careless and do less to contribute to society.
Having a never ending life would end up being a worthless life because they would not make the most out of their time on earth. The only thing that pushes us to do things is our fear of having a limited time on earth. Which is why death is one of the greatest parts of life.