He says, "To die, to sleep-..'... He tells for the first time why he wants to die. ... Hamlet says, he is depressed and wants to die. ... Hamlet's motivation for wanting to die gives some of the best insight into his personality. His reason for choosing life over death is he is afraid of the unknown, of the "undiscovered country" to act on his desire....
Many animals and human beings were born and died. ... But the truth is when a man/woman dies his/her death is judged by the works of his life. ... Death is the opposite of desire. It is the absence of all kinds of desires. A man does not have to work that hard if he wants to die. ...
Everyone has to die however, before we die, can we live properly? ... I am determined to live properly, until I die. If we are going to die, then we have to live the best we can. ... You are given an extraordinary thing, which is life, and you should use it to fulfil everything you desire, that is how life should be lived. The saying, "To live well is to die well," takes on great meaning. ...
Gilgamesh is a hero -- more beautiful, more courageous, and more terrifying than the rest of us; his desires, attributes, and accomplishments epitomize our own. Yet he is also mortal: he must experience the death of others and die himself. ... Thus Gilgamesh turns his attention away from small personal desires to loftier personal desires -- desires that benefit rather than harm Uruk. ...
She does what she is told; she is so completely adapted to the idea of Gattaca that she "would lie down and die at the allotted minute because she would feel guilty if she lived a minute longer than her profile proscribed." (1) However, Vincent is convinced that he can make his dream come true in spite of his existing weaknesses. ... In order to obey the system's policy, Irene has never any desire in life which she tries to accomplish. ... Vincent's dream is so strong that he is ready to sacrifice his life just to accomplish his desire. ... Therefore, Vincent confesses to his brother...
She does what she is told; she is so completely adapted to the idea of Gattaca that she "would lie down and die at the allotted minute because she would feel guilty if she lived a minute longer than her profile proscribed." (1) However, Vincent is convinced that he can make his dream come true in spite of his existing weaknesses. ... In order to obey the system's policy, Irene has never any desire in life which she tries to accomplish. ... Vincent's dream is so strong that he is ready to sacrifice his life just to accomplish his desire. ... Therefore, Vincent confesses to his brother...
One definition of Euthanasia is "the intentional termination of life by another at the explicit request by the person who dies." ... Many people die horrible deaths. One study showed that more often then not, patients died in pain with their desires concerning treatment neglected, after spending 10 or more days in the intensive care unit. ... Albert Shweitzer who stated "We all must die. ... "Should a person who feels that life is not worth living because of unbearable, incurable pain be given assistance in dying?"...
This results in absurdity because the world, everything that surrounds us, cannot give us the understanding that we desire. ... People are born, die, and catch the plague with no warning. ... Even after he comes to realize that even the innocent are dying he still has beliefs rooted in God's divine will. ... He allows himself to die untreated because of his deep beliefs in the order of things. ... They have seen the rats coming out to die, but they just think it's gross; they aren't anxious or concerned. ...
Humans are only able to live authentically when they live and die by the ideals and values that make meaning to them. ... It is Frankl conviction that human life under any circumstances never ceases to have a meaning, and that this infinite meaning of life includes suffering and dying, privation and death. ... • Every person has an innate desire to find meaning and this will to meaning is man's principal motivation for living. ... Such a choice often involves mastery of the feelings, needs and desires which interfere with one's ability to make the often difficult choice of int...
For example when it says "A time to be born, and a time to die" that shows the cycle that is mentioned in the Buddhist religion about death and rebirth (reincarnation). ... It is all one big cycle where when something dies something else is born. ... If everyone dies in the end, what is the purpose of life? In the Buddhist religion they teach that all souls eventually realize Truth, and to reach salvation (nirvana) you must lose all desire. ... This poem demonstrates Siddhartha's life throughout his journey. " A time to get and a time to lose- In Siddhatha's journey this quote f...
For example when it says "A time to be born, and a time to die" that shows the cycle that is mentioned in the Buddhist religion about death and rebirth (reincarnation). ... It is all one big cycle where when something dies something else is born. ... If everyone dies in the end, what is the purpose of life? In the Buddhist religion they teach that all souls eventually realize Truth, and to reach salvation (nirvana) you must lose all desire. ... This poem demonstrates Siddhartha's life throughout his journey. " A time to get and a time to lose- In Siddhatha's journey this quote f...
However, it is best exemplified by a familiar stanza from Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time": Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying. ... Advertisers know about this basic human desire and build it into their slogans: Who Says You Can't Have It All, Just Do It, Satisfy Your Thirst, Life Is A Journey - Enjoy The Ride, and so on. ... Live as if you were going to die tomorrow." ...
He realizes that he has never truly distinguished the difference between his love and his desire for Gretta. ... In Joyce's The Dead, Gabriel Conroy is depicted as a wealthy, well educated, and a married man, however, he finds himself paralyzed by his lifeless existence due to his lack of intimacy and truth, but fueled only by desire. ... As Gabriel watches her, he is depicted as overwhelmed with desire for his wife. ... This desire is central to the theme of paralysis that Joyce wants to get across to the reader, but not clear until Gretta unveils the story of Michael Furey, the boy who ...
Their trip back to Earth was motivated by the desire for more life, to extend it until it matched that of a human being. ... Yet, we will see that the replicants with four-year life spans at times exhibit a desire for life, love and dignity more than most of the real humans in the film. ... As Roy is dying, a look of understanding dawns in his eyes. ... He sees that his task is to sit there and watch Roy die, because the best way in which another human can acknowledge humanity in those moments was to watch that death but more importantly to watch it as a death of another human being. ...
It is imminent that like all humans, inevitably Gilgamesh will die. ... He rapes any woman to which he so desires. ... As they continue to conquer impossible quests it is decided amongst the gods that one of the two must die. ... He suffers greatly until he dies. ... All humans are predestined to die one day and it is vital that time on earth is used to do great things. ...
She is motivated by her desire to save Manni's life that she is willing to try to get the money and make it to him in time without any form of transportation other than her legs. ... Their love for each other is especially showcased in the scenes in which they die. By using mental subjectivity, the director allows us to see the last thoughts going though dying character's brain. They both see a conversation in bed in which the dying questions the others commitment to them. Then, the camera shows the bloody face of the dying as they realize that they are leaving their true love. ...
Under the current law, patients who want to die can either commit suicide on their own, or if competent can refuse all treatment necessary that will prolong their life, but a patient is not given the choice as to when they want to end their life. ... Society's interest in life preservation should be lessened when a person is terminally ill and has strong desire to end their life. ... I believe that Physician Assisted Suicide is also a rational and ethical decision for those who choose to die in order to avoid unbearable suffering. ... In most cases we certainly should, because for those c...
In life people strive for happiness and everyone accomplishes that desire by incorporating different aspects in their life. ... All humans have an instinct to live; people do not want to die for many different reasons. ... However, when a person dies and accepts the fact that they are dead they will reach heaven and be far away from the demons, as portrayed by Jacob when he travels up the stairs with his son Gabe. ...
The cycle of appetite is the process of desire for immediate gratification. ... Mitch had been searching for meaning since his uncle died. ... He had died a slow, painful death from pancreatic cancer, and watching him die had made Mitch feel helpless. ... Perish obviously means to die, as in the case of Morrie. ... Morrie died, so that Mitch could live. ...
In Shakespeare's "Macbeth," Lord Macbeth's transformation from innocence and optimism to guilt and depression, is best displayed in his soliloquy in Act Five, Scene Five. Through Shakespeare's use of dialogue, the audience is given insight into Macbeth's thoughts as he reflects on his change in char...
Catherine becomes his reality and the war is prioritized as his second priority.While he is at war though, Frederic considers the value of his love for Catherine, as he could be the next to die. ... Reality is always full of unwanted desires. ...
Mallard, who is told that her husband has died. ... Although the author plays with this double meaning, it is clarified in the end of the story, when the doctors say "she had died of heart disease". ... Fortunately, now she recognises her freedom, symbolized by some sentences which express the idea that from that moment on, she will live for herself and will bend to nobody's desires. ... In the end of the story, we discover that Brently Mallard was not actually dead, and when Louise sees her husband in the house, she dies from a shock, due to the fact that she suffered from a heart diseas...
However the person who believes in God and afterlife knows that when they die there will be no more sadness and suffering because if God created all beings and God is Happy, then they will be happy as well in the afterlife. ... And according to Epictetus, "If then indeed you consider yourself isolatedly, it is natural that you should live to old age, should be prosperous and healthy; but if you consider yourself as a man, or part of a whole, that you should at one time be sick; at another time take a voyage, and be exposed to danger; sometimes be in want; and possibly die before your time...
Later, this dream state is translated to her desire to reach back into the past and retrieve her enjoyable memories of the days before the orchard was burned. ... One's existence is useless if it is not ever acknowledged or recognized by a single other organism, which is conveyed through Carol's desire to be an exhibitionist. ... Lady's great fear was dying a lonely death and being alone in general. ... (63)" They died together, proving Val wrong, and at the same time they escaped from human and earthly corruption through death, thus they escaped together to someplace more f...
