Descriptive Essay - Funny You Should Ask

It is inevitable that we will all die it is a fact that everyone must come to terms with. There comes a time in everyone’s life that they must face death; a friend’s tragic accident, a family member’s passing or their own battles with diseases. When faced with the idea of death people will act in different ways some may find it therapeutic to apologize for the negative they have done, some may want to spend time with loved ones to ease the future pain, and others may decide that their life was not what they believed. The story Death Constant Beyond Love tells us about a man named Senator Sanchez who is living a happy life with his wife and five kids. That is until he is told by doctors that he only has a short time to live. Death is

Traveling is one of my family’s favorite things to do. The family has visited numerous places throughout the United States, however, none are as memorable as Atlanta, Georgia. In Atlanta, there are many places to go and sights to see such as: Cola-cola factory, Cabbage Patch Kids Factory, Under Ground Mall, the Zoo, Atlanta Braves Stadium, Six Flags Over Georgia, Stone Mountain Park, and the Atlanta Aquarium, are all in or near the city of Atlanta. The three that we visit on every trip to Atlanta are Six Flags, Stone Mountain, and the Atlanta Aquarium.

My first art portfolio, my favorite keychain, my broken bike…1.2.3. No one ever speaks to you about your own ending. How you die is left up to your own imagination. To you, your death can maybe either be due to a glorious, heroic act in which you met a righteous end or a pathetic closing to what you may believe to be a pretty uneventful existence. No one speaks about endings in general, though. Endings only tend to make us feel anything but content. Yet we dream on, foolishly writing silly ends to our lives, forgetting that the ends we create may be plausible one day. College, family, career…1.2.3. My breaths get weary, my heart slows from boisterous thuds to faint, lethargic thumps. Bright rays gleam above, showering me in what is meant to be warmth, but all I feel is cold. My freezing limbs waft slowly within the water, my feet dangling below, my hair flowing behind. My mother’s laughter, my father’s tears of joy, my friends’ bright smiles…1.2.3. I never dreamt my foolish imagination would collide with the inevitable so soon. My days of compiling were over, my good days, my sad days, my sweet, sweet mundane days, would soon come to an end…Air, air, air, air,

‘Today or tomorrow sickness and death will come to those I love or to me; nothing will remain but stench and worms. Sooner or later my affairs, whatever they may be, will be forgotten, and I shall not exist. Then why go on making any effort? . . . How can man fail to see this? And how go on living? That is what is surprising! One can only live while one is intoxicated with life; as soon as one is sober it is impossible not to see that it is all a mere fraud and a stupid fraud! That is precisely what it is: there is nothing either amusing or witty about it, it is simply cruel and stupid.’ Only to conclude with the question ‘Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me

“But everybody knows life isn’t worth living. Deep down I knew perfectly well that it doesn’t much matter whether you die at thirty or at seventy, since either case other men and women will naturally go on living- and for thousands of years. In fact, nothing could be clearer. Whether it was now or twenty years from now, I would still be the one dying.” (Page 114, Chapter 5)

Wallace claims that “the capital-T Truth is about life beforedeath.” Wallace explains to us that he does not want to make his speech about the “big fancy questions of life after death”, but instead wants to share the importance of living life to the fullest; “beforedeath”. In addition, Quindlen professes that she had “learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and today is the only guarantee you get”. Quindlen shares that

Thesis: Everyman needs more time but death will not let him. Paper Outline I. Introduction a. In life we seem to forget that one day we will die. A lot of time you do not realize the world will come to an end.

The author was saying that old age shouldn’t stop you from pursuing things in life, that you should fight against death. In your final days you should enjoy life and “burn and rave”, because before you know it, your life could be gone.

She wants to pass this thought on to her audience to show that there is no control over when it is our time to go, when Death says it is time for the journey, we must welcome and join

“Death. The only thing inevitable in life”, Colleen Hoover, an American author, simply summarized our greatest fear in words that once read, cannot be forgotten. It’s the journey that counts, it’s how you live that counts and till your last breath bringing pride to the country you were born in and eventually to the rest of the world. What scares me the most is not that we are mortals,but the deeds that we do aren’t. Everything I do in this moment will change something in what is to come. The worst part is that as John Donne once said, “No man is an island” everything I do will affect someone in my life. Therefore a ripple will reach the people I care about and the things I care about. It is this weight that I refer to as responsibility. This

“The man’s ultimate response to death is to try “meeting [it] with dignity.” His final words—“You were right, old hoss; you were right”—are part of a conversation that he imagines having with the old-timer who had warned him not to travel alone. They are also an acknowledgment of nature’s power over the individual.” (Gale).

He explains his desire to continue his voyage and earn admiration. The speaker tells of life’s obstacles and their purpose of existence. He feels only death can show us our true principle on earth. The speaker lives his life for himself. He lives to the fullest and looks only forward. The speaker tries to encourage us all to live our lives and never turn to see the past. Only death can end our joy of life. The speaker looks forward to what death brings. He says death shows us the purpose of our troubles. He encourages we leave recollections behind whether good or bad to carry on our legacies. We must stay true to our hearts and follow the paths we see best fit for the way we see is the better way to go in life. The speaker encourages us all to pursue our hearts as he has followed his. He refuses to give up the life he lives for anyone. He does not care for the easy way out of anything. He wants to animate his life to the fullest until the day he meets

Never thought I was going to die like this. In my childhood, I had somehow convinced myself that my death would be grand, or at least substantial in the scheme of things; taking a bullet for my true love, or holding my grandchild’s hand as my consciousness faded away in a hospital bed. Never like this. This was a newspaper death, inconsequential, forgotten the next morning. The universe would be ready to move on before my wake.

Our lives are full of uncertainties. Will the sun come up tomorrow morning? Will the moon rise tonight? Will the tide come in and go out? These are just a few examples of those things that happen so often and with such predictable frequency that we take them for granted. The sun might not come up tomorrow, and the moon might not rise and cause the tide. When you think about it, there isn’t that much in our lives that we can really be certain of. We might make a lot of money, we might get married, we might have a family, and we might be happy and lead a productive life; but will we? There’s a good chance, and steps can be taken to achieve this kind of status, but we can’t be sure. There are just a few things we can be sure of as the world turns. Among these things is something that has crossed the minds of people everywhere at least once; death. I can say with the uppermost confidence that I will die. Everyone has thought about it, and been frightened by the idea. Why are we so afraid? Death is inevitable. We know it’s always coming, and getting a little closer with each passing day. So why are we so anxious about it? We do all we can to escape it. Only at the bitter end do we accept it and fade into darkness.

Living with the knowledge that you will die can become an incredibly powerful motivation to achieve the right things in your life. Everything has to come to an end but no one wants to understand the ugly truth of life, and death comes all of a sudden. And that’s me as an individual have come to estate where life has revealed itself to me and have chosen me as a sacrifice for another soul to be born and that before I leave I’ll leave a mark. It is a scary thing to know that I will die soon but I know that I’ll enjoy every single moment in my life, I’ll enjoy the little things and I’ll notice everything around me. Each moment will be important to me, so I’ll do my best to make every second matters. I’m young and I am a dreamer, I know that I didn’t have the chance to do everything that I wanted to do or even reach my goals. But now it’s different that I knew I’ll die in a year that would change my decisions. Realizing that I didn’t enjoy my life made me regret that I was wasting my time by thinking of tomorrow.