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- 331: Antigone: Summary
- ... one brother, Eteocles, was buried with great military honors, whereas the other brother, Polyneces, was left in the field to rot. Antigone was angered by this and was determined to bury him, even though the penalty was death by stoning. Antigone asked Ismene, her sister, for help with the burial, but Ismene refused. The next day a servant passing by noticed that someone, in an attempt to bury the corpse, had sprinkled dust ... he sends Haimon away. Antigone is then locked up in a chamber and left to die. Haimon, feeling helpless, couldn't live without Antigone so he killed himself. Haimon's mother, Eurydice, learns of his death and she too kills herself, leaving Creon alone and unhappy. Characters - Antigone - Haimon's fiancé and daughter of the former king. Ismene - Antigone's sister. Creon - King of Thebes and Antigone's uncle. Eurydice - ...
- 332: Euthanasia - The Right To Die
- Modern medical technology has made it possible to extend the lives of many far beyond when they would have died in the past. Death, in modern times, often ensures a long and painful fall where one loses control both physically and emotionally. Some individuals embrace the time that modern technology buys them; while others find the loss of control overwhelming and frightening. They want their loved ones to remember them as they were not as they have become. Some even elect death to avoid burdens of lingering on. They also seek assistance in doing so from medicine. The demands for assisted suicide and euthanasia are increasing (Kass 17). These issues raise many questions, legal and ethical. Although ... being treated by physicians, sometimes relying on technical means to stay alive arises a great moral conflict. I wish to explore this topic on ethical, not legal issues. Do people have a right to choose death? More in particular, are euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide morally legitimate? Euthanasia involves a death that is intended to benefit the person who dies, and requires a final act by some other person, for ...
- 333: Death
- Death Death is the thing most people fear the most. I myself however do not, death can mean a lot of things. To me death is a restraint on life, a barrier which holds people from living life to its fullest. I hate being restrained, being set boundaries. However death ...
- 334: Explication Of Dulce Et Decoru
- ... fire...drowning" from exposure to the poisonous gases fired by the enemy. The author is expressing the cruelty of war through this poem in describing the slow and painful deaths that many soldiers went through. Death by poisonous gas is slow and painful. The soldiers who died did so painfully, it was as if they were drowning. Choking slowly, like being drown, death by compression and collapsing of the lungs. This is a horrid death. The poem is from the viewpoint of a soldier watching another soldier die. The soldier is experiencing the death of the other soldier. He is describing his dreams of choking and grasping for breath, ...
- 335: Life, Death, and Politics: A Run-Down Of The Abortion Debate.
- Life, Death, and Politics: A Run-Down Of The Abortion Debate. Few issues have fostered such controversy as has the topic of abortion. The participants in the abortion debate not only have firmly-fixed beliefs, but each ... of abortion continued without diminishment, distinctions were on occasion being drawn between abortion and homicide. Both were seen as grave sins, but not necessarily exactly the same sin or to be subject to the same penalty. While theologians of the Eastern Church were apparently the first explicitly to draw a distinction between the "formed" and the "unformed" fetus, there quickly developed a strong tradition against using the distinction to differentiate homicide ...
- 336: A Mortals Sense Of Immortality
- A Mortal s Sense of Immortality To fear death is to fear life itself. An overbearing concern for the end of life not only leads to much apprehension of the final moment but also allows that fear to occupy one s whole life. The ... release, helping humanity to accept and handle their mortal and limited state. Different cultures have developed varying myths to coincide with their religious beliefs and give reprieve to their members in the face of irrevocable death. The same is true for the stories in the Book of Genesis and the Mesopotamians Epic of Gilgamesh. In these two myths similar paths are taken to this absolution are taken by the characters of ... the same conclusion for each man on the subject of immortality; that no amount of knowledge or innocence, power or humility, honoring or sinning, will achieve them immortality in the sense of a life without death. Eternal life for a mortal lies in memory by one s friends and family after one s death. When Adam is created in the second chapter (and second creation story) of Genesis out of ...
- 337: Explication Of Dulce Et Decoru
- ... fire...drowning" from exposure to the poisonous gases fired by the enemy. The author is expressing the cruelty of war through this poem in describing the slow and painful deaths that many soldiers went through. Death by poisonous gas is slow and painful. The soldiers who died did so painfully, it was as if they were drowning. Choking slowly, like being drown, death by compression and collapsing of the lungs. This is a horrid death. The poem is from the viewpoint of a soldier watching another soldier die. The soldier is experiencing the death of the other soldier. He is describing his dreams of choking and grasping for breath, ...
- 338: Journey Of The Magi
- ... Therefore the theme of religion is an important one if we are to analyse the poem correctly. In the book of Ephesians in the Bible, Paul describes the rebirth of the world upon Christ’s death, emphasising the Ephesians’ new life (2:4-5). This theme of death and rebirth is present in the poem Journey of the Magi, which, I will argue, is structurally and internally divided into three stages; corresponding to the Sacrament of Penance: contrition (guilt), confession and satisfaction. To ... dicing for Jesus’ robe and the “old white horse,” (line 25) galloping madly away, could represent Judas, and the silver he was paid for betraying Jesus. However, the white horse could subsequently be associated with death, evoking images of the Crucifixion and the great disaster that event was for Jesus’ followers. The second stage of the Sacrament, the actual confession, takes place in the final stanza when the narrator starts ...
- 339: Jack Kevorkian
- ... on her husband for feeding and bathing² (Gutmann 21). She did not want to take her own life in case she messed it up, and her own doctors wouldn¹t help her (Hendin , ³Seduced by Death² 132). Though she was still able to carry on clear conversations and demolish her son at tennis; her husband explained that if she was going to go, she¹d probably want to go to soon ... conversation, Kevorkian agreed to meet with her (Gutmann 20). ³Dr. Kevorkian was a retired pathologist in Michigan with a passionate commitment to promoting assisted suicide and the use of his suicide machine¹² (Hendin, ³Seduced by Death² 130). He had an abiding interest in helping people die painlessly. He was the perfect person to carry out Janet¹s wishes (Larson 229). Dr. Kevorkian and Janet Adkins then met to discuss their intentions and eventually carry out the suicide (Hendin, ³Seduced by Death² 134). Kevorkian and his two sisters, Margo and Flora, met with Ron, Janet, and Janet¹s closest friend Carroll Rehmke in their motel room on June 2, 1990 (Wolfson 56). ³He had already prepared ...
- 340: James Rachels' Death and Dying
- James Rachels' Death and Dying James Rachels is one of the most controversial philosophers talked about in today's society. One of his most talked about topics is whether a person has a right to die or not ... explain why they both are bad to a certain degree. Rachels does not take one side, but tries to convince why one is better than the other. In his opinion, letting a person starve to death or just putting him out of his misery by killing him is an ongoing struggle. If you let a person starve to death, it might be putting that person through a lot of pain but he'll still be alive (who knows, maybe a miracle cure will be found.) If you killed him on the spot with ...
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