Teen Suicide Speech Picture this: You’re sitting in your room‚ the doors locked and your thinking of a way to start your letter‚ your suicide letter. Your hands are trembling‚ your heads spinning‚ your hearts pounding. You have hot tears rolling down your face‚ and you finally give up. Its 10:00 at night‚ and you stand up to shut your lights‚ and hop into your bed. You look around your room‚ then shut your eyes and whisper “goodbye”‚ and take your last breath‚ and end it all. –Diego Sanchez Basurto
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In 399 BCE Socrates was wrongfully put to death. The charges and verdict were posted in the metroon (Greek temple): "Socrates is guilty of refusing to recognize the gods recognized by the state and introducing other‚ new divinities. He is also guilty of corrupting the youth. The penalty demanded is death‚" (Socrates). Regardless of the laws at the time‚ and the amount of discretion given to the court‚ the wrong moral decision was made. Socrates’ famous student‚ Plato‚ wrote about trial in Apology
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Task A. Assisted suicide 1) The issues presented in text 1 and 2 are concerning the same subject‚ though they have a different view on the matter. Should we as a society‚ be able to bend the current laws in a way that it would be legal for a terminal ill patient‚ to commit voluntarily suicide? This is a common debate in the modern society we live in‚ as the progression of healthcare and medicine now makes people live longer - whether they like it or not. In these two texts‚ pros and cons
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Suicide in Teens Suicide in teens is a rising issue in today’s society; suicide is the intent of taking your own life and it’s a major issue that should be addressed as soon as possible. Even though teen suicide is a major topic in today’s society‚ it still has a huge impact on today’s adolescence. In the United States‚ suicide is the eighth cause of death‚ and also the third cause of death among people aged 15-26. This is a surprising fact because‚ suicide is 100% preventable. There are numerous
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432746 Purpose: In this paper‚ I will evaluate Socrates’ argument from Phaedo for why philosophers should desire death‚ perhaps only secondly to wisdom. I will argue that Socrates unfairly characterizes the truthfulness of the senses‚ and therefore projects a pessimistic view of the philosopher’s virtue during life. This pessimism towards life in conjunction with arguments for an afterlife that liberates reason‚ seems to suggest that Socrates believes philosophers should desire death: a happy prospect
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Socrates is known today as one of the greatest Philosophers. With his philosophical views‚ centuries ago‚ Socrates was brought to trial and cost his life due to his claims and charges were pressed against him. He was indicted of turning the worse argument into the stronger argument (28). Socrates was accused for not recognizing the gods acknowledged by the state‚ and was accused of being an atheist (36). He was despised by adults due to his inquisitions and answering a question with a question and
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Intro To Philosophy 1030-202 Socrates was not a Sophist; he never took money for his teaching‚ and rejected sophistical arguments.For one thing‚ the sophists taught for money. Socrates did not. For another‚ the sophists used language to win arguments and to sway people’s opinion regardless of the truth. Socrates used language to attain the truth. Socrates lived as an independent man. he did not want to go under any category. He was not paid for his "irony" and maieutics. Therefore he was
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Suicide Prevention Suicide takes the lives of nearly 30‚000 Americans every year. People commit suicide every day in the world. It is an ugly but truthful thing in the world. Some people’s situations put them in a more likely position to commit suicide. Some of the main contributors to suicide are troubles with in a family‚ friends‚ careers‚ and social life. It’s important that people are aware of warning signs. They also should know common characteristics of those who are suicidal and those
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Section 1: Socrates’ argument Socrates sits in a prison cell‚ sentenced to death. His wealthy friend Crito has come to speak with him as he waits for a ship from Delos to return and allow executions to begin. Socrates knows that he‚ “must die the day after the ship arrives (Plato‚ 44).” Socrates also knows that he is not guilty of the crimes he was convicted of‚ stating‚ “There have been many who have accused me to you for many years now‚ and none of their accusations are true (Plato 22).” It is
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Jesus Against Socrates Socrates‚ known as the famous Greek philosopher and one of the wisest people around‚ was looked at as being a very strong willed and “stand-by-his-opinion” kind of man. Jesus‚ on the other hand‚ was a man who went through his life not by blatantly expressing and sharing his wisdom‚ but by making his “students” think things through for themselves in order to gain understanding and wisdom in certain topics. Based on what is known about Jesus and Socrates‚ two major moral
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