(Kolak13) Socrates has shown that he has no desire to plead for his life because death does not frighten him into doing so. ... He believed that he was close to death anyway because of his old age, and stated this to the court, "If you had waited a little while, your desire would have been fulfilled in the course of nature. ... (Kolak 16) He then came to a conclusion about the trial resulting in his execution, "I regard this as a proof that what has happened to me is a good, and that those of us who think that death is an evil are in error But I see clearly that to die and be rel...

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If a dying person wanted to die, it was permitted for others to end his life. ... It is their desire to end the pain and agony. ... No one wants to die. There is no such thing as dying as well. ... They found that a patient who strongly expressed the desire to die could say the opposite even some 12 hours later. ...

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Specifically, terminally ill patients suffer because they are denied the right to die. ... The desire to pass on one's genes is imminent, much like the desire to abolish restraints placed on an individual (a reason why freedom is a major factor for the United States). ... The second request must be videotaped and documents must be signed registering their desire for the procedure. ... These very basic and very precise steps will lead to a fair and just self-desired death. ... These procedures have the power to save slowly dying patients of their misery and save others dying of organ fail...

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As the story of his life unfolds in The King Must Die, Theseus develops from a passionate youth who had a small grasp of life to a reserved and knowledgeable king. ... Theseus manipulates situations to suit his purposes, and is able to achieve the ends he desires without revealing his intentions. ... Thus, when he dies, he goes to the gods with nothing but a record of his life; if he lived honorably, then he has lived a good life....

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He is not content with what he has and desires much more in life. ... Gilgamesh, like many of us, has a burning desire to be successful in life. The epic illustrates how human nature has the desire to obtain more than one possesses. ... People want to live longer, healthier lives, but dying is an unavoidable part of life. Indeed, everything that lives will at sometime die. ...

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Lily Bart is a very developed character who is caught between her desire for luxury and reality. Following the loss of the family fortune, both of Lily's parents died, leaving her to live with her aunt, Mrs. ... He is aware of the fact that he has nothing to offer to Lily as far as finances and the luxurious life she desires. ... There he found that she had died in her sleep. ... Had it not been for rumors and their triumph over her, she may not have died the way she did. ...

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He enjoyed his younger years in Wales, and his later works reflect his desire to relive his happy childhood. ... This passage means that although every man is going to die, love will never die. ... This line means that time is keeping the narrator until it is his time to die. ... Thomas presents a vivid image of how quickly one's life can pass and a universal desire to recapture youth. ... In the last stanza Thomas is talking directly to his dying father. ...

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Immortality, life after death, and infinity are people's concern and interest .Everyone one has a desire to still alive and to examine life and its secrets, Immortality expresses the existence of souls after the death of the body to confirm the fact; that death is not the end of everything .The origin of this belief, the existence of souls after death is a global abstract phenomenon that some anthropologist refers it to dreams which inspire of continuity of dead people existence. ... Therefore, the idea of eternal youth becomes as an eternal desire to delay death and estrange ageing. ...

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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. ...

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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 ...

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Should those who want to die, or who are in a "persistent vegetative state" be allowed to die voluntarily? ... All people die, but apparently only people know they are to die. ... The issue concerns the morality of mercy in aiding the dying patient. ... "When the illness is terminal and there is no hope of relief or recovery, however, death is often desired for the patient as God's appointed way to relieve suffering." ... Sorestad had asked her husband to help her die! ...

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In the case of Codi Noline, the novel's central character, foresight played both the role of the adversary and the desired. ... This constant desire for companionship left her helpless and alone. ... After the death of her mother and the miscarriage of her baby, Codi feared and yet desired to incorporate love into her life. ... His desires to be sawed from the family tree and for his girls to develop perfectly consumed his spirit and clouded the emotional aspect of his relationship with his daughters. ... Her desire to help was directly proportional to the cries for agricultural assis...

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Hale speaks sadly that it might have been better if Mattie had died - for, "if she'd ha' died, Ethan might ha' lived; and the way they are now, I don't see's there's much difference between the Fromes up at the farm and the Fromes down in the graveyard' 'cept that down there they're all quiet, and the women have got to hold their tongues." ... From Ethan's desire to leave town to the attempt to buy glue to the doomed passion between Ethan and Mattie, the novel is full of frustrated desires and unfulfilled plans. ...

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His life was filled with tragedies that started when he was ten months old and until he died at age forty. ... After Madeline dies he assists Roderick in the placement of her body in a steal coffin in a vault under the house. ... It was as though they were one being, relying on each other for life; Once Madeline died, Roderick had lost part of himself. ... All this desired effect puts the reader into shock, but also brings out a good side. ... If he hadn't left the scene of terror, the narrator, would have died in the collapse of the house. ...

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Hamlet Hamlet is a young man who's father dies and his life is turned upside down. ... Hamlet expressed his desire to commit suicide in his soliloquy. ... If he dies he will end all the negative things in his life. ... Hamlet is only loyal to revenge and until he has completed this task he cannot die. ... If hamlet did not have to avenge his father murder he would have killed himself after he found out Ophelia died. ...

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We are always willing to reach for the top and always have the desire to be better than others are and this is the main cause for people like Gray becoming self-centered. ... These are trifles and mere old wives" tales.(128-130) Despite the fact that Mephistophilis guarantees him that he will find out what hell is when he dies and actually experience it, Faustus still denies it and declares that it is completely made up. ... When she dies, she takes his whole childhood away. ... It is when he dies and is taken to hell when he realizes what he has done and recognizes his sins. ... We cann...

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These hopeless desires and unforgettable memories lead ultimately to the emotional and psychological mutilation of Pecola. ... Housman's To an Athlete Dying Young. ... /And the name died before the man", reveals the concept that those dying at the peak of their glory or youth are really quite lucky. ... Death, being major topic and scene in To an Athlete Dying Young, is also present in William's The Widow's Lament in Springtime. ... Pecola's baby dies in autumn, the season of harvesting. ...

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Although Socrates has no proof that the soul does exist after the body dies, his arguments can be convincing to many by using the dialectic. The dialogue between Socrates and the others begins with a longer statement of the type of defense Socrates gave in the Apology for thinking that death would be preferable to life for one with his interests: the desire for wisdom is frustrated by the body in various ways, so one can hope to get much further without the body's impediments. The philosopher's life is then a practicing to die [67-68, 80e-81]. ... Then Cebes states that there is no...

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When Andrew arrives back at the house Mary assumes that Jay is dead and Andrews confirms that fact that he did die in the accident. ... Mary tells the children that their father has died and they will never be able to see him again. ... All of those characteristics of his father made it difficult to deal with his lose when he died in 1916 when Agee was only six years old (18). ... In a letter to one of his close friends, Father Flye, he says: "That, however, is fierce and complicated enough to keep me balancing over suicide as you might lean out over the edge of a high building, as far you c...

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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...

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After becoming friends, the two mighty men become restless, as they share the same desire for immortality. ... However, even though the two vanquish this creature, they both fail to become divine beings, and die separate deaths as mere mortals. ... The fact that humans die and are conscious and afraid of this fact also allows them to have the best position in the order of the Mesopotamian cosmos. ... The Mesopotamian people know, just as gods do, what they are and what they can do, except that they are also uniquely aware that life is not eternal and that they must appreciate and get the most ...

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As the poem develops, T.S Eliot begins to show a way out for the Waste Landers and water becomes a desire. ... The lack of water is the main broken ceremony in The Waste Land, Eliot uses the water as an image associated with desire, it is the only thing that can bring re-birth to The Waste Land. ... This process is like dying in water and being resurrected into a new life. ...

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Morrie spends his final days with his immediate family and dies alone in his bed, almost like he had planned it that way. ... He once said that you must learn how to die, before you learn how to live. ... An analogy he gave was one of Buddhist knowledge; one must ask the bird on his shoulder if today is the day you die. ... It is important to understand that everything dies away naturally. ... By reading about their meeting after seven years without contact I was reminded of this friendship that I once had and it made me desire to reunite with this friend. ...

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This is seen when he allows Chief Chomina to die and go to his "She-Manitou" instead of him baptizing him as he lay on the island like he had seen in his dreams. Laforgue's whole purpose for being there was to convert Indians and here he was able to forget his desires and listen to what they wanted. ... This was ironic that these Indians who had become Christians so recently died the way that the missionaries themselves had wanted. ...

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And the desire and need to take a stand at the building of damns. ... The land that Dora-Rouge was from and wanted to go home to die. ... The dream of Angel's mother Hannah and her finding her just before she died to finish making peace (p 248-250). ...

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