Death is the black sheep of conversations. However‚ the reason for this topic to be unspoken is not only the darkness related to the topic itself‚ but in fact‚ what comes after it (if anything at all). For as long as humans have inhabited the earth‚ people have had their own theories about afterlife. In the poem “I Heard a Fly Buzz - When I Died‚” the ghost speaker reflects on her last minutes of life‚ curiously searching and reassuring herself of the possibility of an afterlife promised by God when
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“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like” (“Forward Quotes”). Tzu explains how life is a long series of changes‚ ups and downs‚ and that people should accept the changes they face rather than resist and struggle against the path that was set for them. In Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could not Stop for Death”‚ the speaker enters into a carriage with Death
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Throughout many of his works‚ Plato has continually presented the notions that we have souls and that they are or may possibly be immortal. These ideologies are suggested through a series of thoughts‚ mostly in the form of an argument or analogy. The main arguments presented within “Phaedo” either argue for the immortality of the soul or create a dialogue assuming that the soul is immortal and attempt to prove another aspect of knowledge or life. The main four arguments presented are the cyclical
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People look forward to life. They live for their life. They seek to make memories; they seek to live their life to the fullest. People take risks and challenges because they believe this is the only life they have so why not? Not many people live to die. Death is a very frightening and harrowing concept to most people. Usually‚ people think of death in dismal and bleak terms. But the famous philosopher‚ Socrates‚ does not. He thinks of death in hopeful and promising terms instead. To Socrates‚ he
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Humans often fear death‚ it is the fear of the unknown. People who die do not usually come back to life‚ so how are we supposed to know what is beyond the living world. Humans would do anything to escape their death‚ but can we cheat death really? In the short story The Pit and the Pendulum the narrator is trying to escape his inevitable death‚ but can death really be cheated? The narrator finds himself trapped in a empty pit with no lighting. Now discovering that he is trapped down in the pit
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Is there an afterlife? How do we get there if it exists? Who gets to go? What will it be like? These are some of the points brought up in David Eagleman’s story “Sum”. The book contains forty different tales from the afterlives and presents information that is convincing and forces us to take a moment to think about what the world would be like if this or that were true. One of the stories is titled “Death Switch” and recounts a world where technically there is no afterlife‚ but a piece of us still
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In a letter written to Jean-Baptiste Leroy in 1789‚ Benjamin Franklin made the comment‚ “In this world nothing can be said to be certain‚ except death and taxes” (phrases.org.uk). Ironically‚ while death is inevitable for every one of us‚ it is one of the most undiscussed and ill-prepared for events in our lives. Many people do not feel comfortable contemplating their last moments here on earth or their death and very rarely talk about it with family members or friends. Honestly‚ even as a Christian
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Have you ever wondered how other people viewed death? Well many people view death in many ways. Some view it as a good thing‚ others view it as a negative thing. The people that believe that it is a good thing believe that you go to heaven or that you don’t actually die your spirit stays down. The people that that think that it’s bad are the people who focus on it as them getting taken away from them and not living a happier life not struggling alive. Indians believe that you don’t die your spirit
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Buddhism and Islam: Comparative Essay Islam and Buddhism are two very different religions that have their own views about life and its purpose. Their views on issues relating to the possibility of a god the purpose of life‚ and cycle of life‚ death‚ and an afterlife are all distinct from each other‚ but at the same time‚ they have similarities. Muslims believe in the existence of the One and Only God ’Allah ’. They firmly believe that Allah is the highest being and the creator and the overseer
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Freedom in the Hindu Culture Over the past three years in America we have been bombarded with the word freedom as a call to action or a word to persuade us to follow a specific view. Although our society was born on freedom as an idea‚ its meaning has been used in many ways. Hinduism is also a religion and a culture that places a lot of meaning on freedom but they give a different meaning to it. From learning about Hindu culture in this class their focus on it follows suit as does our version
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