Chapter 6: A Brief Story Of Chauncey's House

Then he remembered while he was driving on the freeway that President John F. Kennedy was going to be in Dallas that day. Ed pulled over on the side and parked his car and watched for the president. He waited and was looking where he would be coming from and then he saw two suspicious men. The first guy was wearing a black hat and a blue jacket and he saw a puff of smoke and he thought it was a cigarette, but it ended up being a gun. Then the guy who had the gun turned and gave it to the other guy and then the first guy straightened his jacket and walked away. The second guy who now had the gun walked over to the electrical box with the gun and he took it apart and put it in a toolbox.

"Suicide, what a terrible concept. There are two types of suicide: physical, and theoretical. Physical suicide is the more commonly heard type of suicide. It entails the person actually, physically killing himself or herself. On the other hand, theoretical suicide is when the person does something that will, in turn, get him or her killed. For example, in “All About Suicide” by Luisa Valenzuela, Ismael, a man that works at a minister’s office, murders the minister, a high-ranking public official. Ismael has been forced to be quiet by the government; therefore he lashes out by killing the minister so that he can reveal the truth about the government. In doing this, Ismael technically “kills himself” because he knows the government

He was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a neurodegenerative disease which is also known as ALS. This disease is sometimes called “Lou Gehrig’s disease” and it encompasses a gradual deterioration of the nervous system that typically concludes with the person suffocating. Clendinen wants his readers to understand why someone going through a terminal illness and staring death in the face would want to end their own life, even at a young age. He is not trying to persuade readers, rather help them understand and become educated on his thoughts of dying and more importantly, contemplate their own thoughts of death and

One reason is, If you were to commit suicide, how would you shoot yourself two seperate times. It would be extremely hard to shoot yourself and then five minutes later you shoot yourself again. Another reason why is, why would he ask for help if he wanted to kill himself. If you put it all together, it starts to make more and more sense why it was a murderer and not a suicide. There was also a new moon which meant it was completely pitch black so no one could see the murderer kill

Suicide is, according to Sartre, “an opportunity to stake out our understanding of our essence as individuals in a godless world” (Stanford, 2004). Fundamentally, existentialism argues all individuals are free and therefore responsible for their actions. Thus, it is up to the individual to create an ethos of personal ideology, which is the only way one is able to rise above the human condition of suffering, death and finality (Guigon, 2001). Suicide is seen as the individual’s act of giving in to the absurdity of human life. In other words, when a human is unable to create meaning out of the absurdity that surrounds him or herself, her or she live the typical life of pain, suffering, death and thus make suicide a natural act of existence

Throughout the novel suicide is ever present “‘ Fireman in Seattle, purposely set a Mechanical Hound to his own chemical complex and let it loose. What kind of suicide would you call that?’” (Bradbury, 29). This shows that even the firemen who are supposed to be saviours don’t want to live on this Earth anymore. The fireman let the hound loose on himself which others considered insane as the hounds kill in a brutal fashion of injecting prey with all sorts of chemicals. Another example is when Beatty says “‘Besides, these fanatics always try suicide; the pattern’s familiar.’” (Bradbury, 36). When someone is at the point of committing suicide rather than let their possessions burn the image of a corrupt mentally unstable society that no one would want to live in.

Fighting for justice in “Revolutionary Suicide” presents two conflicts between suicide and salvation. In Oakland California around 1970, African Americans were being so mistreated that a movement was created to fight for black power which is known as Black Panther Party. African Americans were going up against the police and government of the racist south. This was a time Jim Crow laws had just ending along with segregation ,but that dosen’t mean that the whites of the south still didn’t have the same intentions they used to have about blacks. Which lead to many confrontations that resulted in death or injury causing revolutionary suicide. In poem “Revolutionary Suicide,” The style of the poem is built of a cause and effect. First, the speaker addresses that having nothing causes him to have everything .“By having no family I inherited the family of humanity …By having surrendering my life to the revolution I found internal life.” Readers can get an impression that the speaker would make a great leader. Especially when he tells the audience that he is willing to sacrifice himself in order to gain revolution. The speaker is confronting the opposition letting them know he is not afraid of death nor them. He also writes this in the poem

pneumonia and was dying. The journey was slow because of his illness and he did not want to risk trying

Hamlet's to be or not to be soliloquy, illuminates something that crosses every human's mind, even if only for a split second; to live or die, fight or cry. Sometimes the world can get to a person, and when allowed to manifest, it can be hurtful. Suicide is a choice when things get tough, but a cowardly act. Life is precious and the only way to succeed must be to be in it; therefore, living. Suicide doesn't terminate a problem, but hides it. People will be judged sooner or later by the powers that be.

He was in a lot of pain, but no one helped him, and he had to just go on with it like it is nothing. He was struggling to stay alive, and he did not know if he was going to make it out or

To begin with, there were no weapons involved in the murder case. A person committing suicide is something that by definition doesn’t involve a written note, so for some people this might

This is the beast of the emotions and is the one that rages on and hard. It can and does fuel the fires that burn the other emotions that surface in its place and those listed here. Anger is common towards the person who committed this sense act of suicide, and towards those you think should have and maybe could have prevented this act but understand this senseless act could have not been stopped. If a person wants to inflict a senseless act then they will and nobody can stop it. Lastly for anger this can and does sums it all up “the very person we love and lost is also the very person who murder the person we lost.”

he realized that there is no possible way to avoid death. In the article he talks about his cancer and how

My honest response to this is suicide is not something to joke about and I hate how so many people constantly are joking about this, because it's something very serious. I also think suicide is something only a self-centered person would do. My reason for choosing suicide as my theme is because the whole poem revolves around this. Lines eight and seventeen say he would’ve done it. These lines say “I could’ve died” but then he further realized life is so much less scary than killing yourself and so he didn’t, he chose not to end his life. He states “I could’ve died for love, but for living i was born” this explaining him, realizing his life was worth way more than love or whatever he was going through. My response wasn’t very detailed, so going more in depth, what I mean by “only a self-centered person would do” I basically mean only someone so stuck up would kill themselves and that person being so self-centered wouldn’t even think twice about the people who care so much for this person, if that made any sense. I’m practically saying a self-centered person would only do such thing knowing they have someone or people who care and love this person. An example from the poem is lines twelve and thirteen, which show either way he had someone he loved, in that moment he thought suicide mattered more than a loved one which is non-sense. All this saying before you commit suicide think about your loved ones and think to yourself “wait what does this do or

When he got to shore he fell asleep because he was so tired from the swim into shore. When he woke up in the morning he saw blood and a revolver casing and he knew that's what the gunshot was from.