A Very Easy Death : Perspective

The importance of cherishing the invaluable individuals in one’s life is apparent in Matthew Teague’s personal journey of his wife’s battle against cancer and a genuine friendship. “The Friend” depicts emotional appeal, comparisons, and vivid imagery to portray the significance of valuing loved ones. There is no single definition for a loved one. A spouse, children, family, friends, the reciprocated love can build everlasting bonds, but why is it so important to treasure the relationships we have? Just because they are family, it may not signify that we love them; just because they are acquaintances, it does not necessarily indicate that we have a type of love for them either. The pure love we possess for someone is rare and never chosen or obliged, so this valuable love should be nurtured, for people are bound within unpredictable time limits. Nichole’s, Teague’s wife’s, diagnosis of cancer was a realization for him that his days with her were numbered. Along the way, Dane Faucheux, the couple’s friend, was devoted to aiding the Teague family during their struggling time. Faucheux’s undisputed support for Teague and his family surprised him numerous times throughout their experience. This love in the sublime story is seeped with appreciation for those Teague values in his life. The realization and worth of his deep endearment for his family and friend is transferred to the reader, and he or she begins to realize the reality of the given time to value those who are most important.

“A Sorrowful Woman” features a superficially simple narration style. “Now the days were too short. She was always busy,” Stylistically clipped, with a clear passive, detached, voice the narration style seems to be a banal, unimportant feature of the text. Yet the exact mendacity that prompts this description actually serves as a prerequisite to developing an understanding for the principal character’s mindset, and consequently the theme of the text. The last passage contains numerous examples of detached narration but the clearest occurs when “She was always busy. She woke with the first bird. Worked till the sun set. No time for hair brushing. Her fingers raced the hours.” The concise, third person narration in this segment allows the reader to experience the slightly off viewpoint of ‘the mother.’ Specifically, given the lack of motivation present through the text coupled with the concluding suicide it becomes evident in the text that ‘the mother’ is suffering from depression. Given the societal stigma surrounding mental illness authors generally face an uphill

Death is never an easy thing to deal with. When a loved one dies, people will naturally go through a system of mourning wherein they laud and appreciate the person who is now gone from their lives forever. There are times when deaths are more difficult to deal with, such as when a death is unexpected or when the deceased is a young person who should have had a long life ahead of them. Although death is never necessarily a happy event, there are occurrences where the passing away of a friend or loved one can be quantified as a good, if not pleasant event. According to the text, there are three conditions wherein a death can be considered a "good death." First, there is the medically-based good death. In this scenario, a person has been ill for a considerable length of time. Their illness is chronic, painful, and incurable. Thus, when that person finally passes away from that disease, their death is good because they are no longer in the position where they are suffering. The second type of good death is the sacred death wherein a person dies for some sort of religious purpose. In many ancient cultures, there were civilizations which used the practice of human sacrifice for a variety of reasons, including honoring the gods and ensuring a strong harvest of crops. Modern cultures do not usually include sacred deaths nor sacrificial deaths and often prosecute those who choose to participate in such events. Thirdly, a

Revenge can be analyzed, as it becomes the exhibited behavior of the Widow resulting from a number of causes. First cause is the harm done to her family; second cause is the Widow’s perception of violence during that time; and the third cause is her aggression toward the killer of her son. The first cause of her revenge is the most obvious reason why she avenged the death of her son, and this is because the killer caused pain to her family. Any mother would be committing the act especially that her son was the only company she has. The second cause pertains to the Widow’s perception of revenge during that time, and because at the time, wars and feuds were still evident in the French society, bloodshed for the Widow is not something to be scared of, given any means. This story was only successful in showing to its readers how the society thinks of death during those times, which can be achieved through any means, by which losing one’s life was not something to be thought of carefully. This just proves that during that time, morality was not given high regard as it is now. Death by any means can be accomplished by anybody, regardless of age, gender, and status in society. The third cause of the Widow’s behavior is her aggression toward the killer of her son, which was not literally shown or described in the story, but was evident based on

When a young doctor advises immediate surgery for a defective heart valve, the father resists, especially when an older doctor says that rest and medication might take care of the situation. Without surgery, he would die shortly, so in the end, he decides to have the operation despite the risks. So what emerges during the story, from the dialogues between Janet and her father, a brief excursion into the past is a portrait of her father. He is a working-class man, who cares for his daughter and other family members, but is unable to express his love and constantly comes across, instead, as somewhat critical. As he prepares psychologically for death, he briefly toys with the idea of the existence of the soul and the afterlife but rejects that possibility. In calm, he informs his daughter, Janet, about details concerning his house.

A greater reflection of all characters will be reviewed in further depth. They all give the same response, which is that none are able to accompany him on his journey. In reflection, it is easy to understand that the Everyman have put other things above what God truly wants. He has turned to his goods or riches to help him and even initially attempt to bribe Death, which is another fault. The everyman wants everything that he has or has obtained to be enough and to grant his with the accompaniment to be judge in front of the Creator. Many times Christians believe that all they they have will please the Lord, that the blessings that have been given to them or that they feel they have accomplished on their own is what will end the end provide them with salvation and good standing with the Lord. These are all false beliefs because as within the play just as Everyman discovers none of these will win or provide good favor with or from the Lord.

Rather than making this film into a devastatingly tragic tale of familial loss, Girard chooses to articulate the pain of miscarriage in a refreshingly realistic way. The setting of the miscarriage in an unashamedly public space, that lacks the comfort and intimacy of a family home or medical room, is potentially configured to cast a raw and honest depiction of the mournful reality of miscarriages that affect anything between 10-25% of all pregnant women. The film’s characterization of a bereaved mother is equally refreshing in that it does not reduce Lilly to a hysterical, grieving mess after she miscarries in the cubicle. Rather, Lilly’s admirable engagement with the death of her unborn child chimes suitably with the temperate, subtle and measured tones of the film which are reflected in the soft, dusky pinks of the bathroom interior, delicate embraces by husband and wife, mother and child and the light, plucking of French guitar strings in the film’s melodic, non-diegtic music. Lilly does not scream or shout, fall down or become inconsolable when comforted by her loving husband. Her sobs indicate her internal suffering to the viewer, but instead, she chooses to respond courageously to her miscarriage for the sake of her

Kathe lost her son in the war then later on losing her only grandson in the second world war. This explains the sorrow filled eyes as if tears were about to run through her lifeless cheeks. Kathe’s work is characteristic of expression. Kathe expressed her own outlook so others will “see” and “understand” and perhaps understand the suffering she had to tolerate as the wife of a doctor who took care of the working poor. Kathe’s work

The timeline taught me that my family followed a fairly balanced cyclical pattern. Some good events followed by some bad events and so forth from the time just before I was born until the present. As I was trying to color code the chart I found it difficult because several of the events involved more than one family member, if not all of us.

Meursault, the narrator, is a young man living in Algiers. After receiving a telegram informing him of his mother’s death, he takes a bus to Marengo, where his mother had been living in an old persons’ home. He sleeps for almost the entire trip. When he arrives, he speaks to the director of the home. The director allows Meursault to see his mother, but Meursault finds that her body has already been sealed in the coffin. He declines the caretaker’s offer to open the coffin. hat night, Meursault keeps vigil over his mother’s body. Much to his displeasure, the talkative caretaker stays with him the whole time. Meursault smokes a cigarette, drinks coffee, and dozes off. The next morning, before the funeral, he meets with the director again. The director informs him that Thomas Perez, an old man who had grown very close to Meursault’s mother, will be attending the funeral service. The funeral procession heads for the small local village, but Perez has difficulty keeping up and eventually faints from the heat. Meursault reports that he remembers little of the funeral. That night, he happily arrives back in Algiers.

Why are we allowed to be more humane to our pets than our parents? Physician-assisted suicide is a voluntary termination of one’s own life by administration of a lethal substance with direct or indirect assistance of a physician. Euthanasia is another term for this practice it provides a competent patient with a prescription for the patient to use with the primary intention of ending his or her own life. Compassion and Choices or Death with Dignity are names of supporters that promote euthanasia, also referred to as physician-assisted suicide, and believe that it is just as humane for terminally ill animals as it is for people. I too agree that it should be legally and morally open for choice to anyone suffering from a terminal

Meursault sets aside all emotional values and only wants her sexually. The style of Meursault’s narration also reflects his interest in the physical. Though he offers simple, plain descriptions when encountering emotional or social situations, his descriptions become vivid when he discusses topics such as nature and the weather. When Meursault got the telegram in the mail informing him of his mother’s death, he simply said ““Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know””

Inciting Incident – Liesel’s little brother died on the way to Molching when Liesel’s mother put them for adoption when she couldn’t take care for them anymore. Liesel finds her first book The Gravedigger Handbook at her brothers’ funereal.

As the intercom burst the stillness, a nurse called for the Monroe family to come to the unit. A petite lady of late middle age rose from her seat with the aid of a younger man, grief was evident from their hesitant steps and haggard faces. The occupants in the lounge knew that to be summoned at this time of night, would be to be told that the worst had happened to a loved one.

Wishing death upon a loved one is not something desirable or acceptable, but this is Sandra Loh’s response when a colleague asks her how she is doing. In the article, published on March 2012, the writer argues that giving care to an elderly loved one can be a very tiring and expensive affair that may lead one to wish death upon them as a means of ending the trouble. She sites various sources to support her arguments complete with facts, figures, and statistics with numerous emotional appeals as to why this daunting experience of taking care of her ailing father led her to wish death upon him. There are varying degrees of success in her use of logos, pathos, and ethos but further along, her use of ethos is cast into immense scrutiny. Despite the use of numerous references, the writer makes a weak attempt at convincing her audience to support her wish to have her father dead.