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Julius Caesar Quotes About Fear Of Death

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Deathly Afraid? More Like Afraid of Death

“Fear is quite powerful because it grabs a hold of us and prevents us from speaking openly,” says Erin Coriell (Coriell). Fear overcomes us and we submit to it. Everyone has a fear and in some cases, the fear can often negatively impact the person’s every day to day life (FearOf. net.). Often she or he will refuse to leave the home because of this fear (FearOf.net.). Everyone has their own point of view on every fear there is. What would you do if someone said that they had the fear of death? Being deathly afraid is not the same as being afraid of death, is it? Should we really be afraid of what is to come? Few people are actually able to talk about it, to show their views of death. Edgar Allen Poe and Geoffrey Chaucer willingly showed the world the thoughts that they had. …show more content…

They go on a journey and on this journey, they meet an old man who tells them about death being close by. These three men follow his directions and then they end up turning on each other. They feared death so much and yet, they turned on each other. Death makes people do things that they would not normally do. They tried to beat death, to kill death. All that they really did was greet death with open arms. They planned on killing the others because they were full of greed and wanted the money to themselves. Greed is one of many things that can lead to the death of

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