For Scranton, as well as anyone else I imagine, learning how to die is a bit of a process. ... " (Scranton 3) So how do we make meaningful choices in the shadow of our inevitable end? ... " Therefore, if we want to learn to live in the Anthropocene we must first learn how to die. ... "How do we make meaningful choices in the shadow of our inevitable end?... Works Cited "Response -- Roy Scranton, "Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene"" Regarding Race Nation and Our Future. 4 May 2014. ...

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We need to know how to do this, how to live in freedom, not being imprisoned by the future, and not being carried away by things in the present. ... Everyone has to die however, before we die, can we live properly? ... If we are going to die, then we have to live the best we can. ... If we aren't able to live with peace, joy, and freedom before we die, then we live as if we are dead already.  ... In doing so, we are guaranteed that when our time comes, we will die happy. ...

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We are all going to die; everything about us will be eventually gone. ... We have no control over the day we die and how we die, with the exception of suicide. ... If none of us would ever die then is that absurd? ... If we would not die the world would overpopulate and we would all be starving and squeezed together. ... How can eternity even be possible? ...

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Others say that life was created by nature, but how is that possible? ... Nevertheless, we all know that life is essential; it is the only way in which we can achieve understanding. ... But we are all similar in the fact that we choose are own paths and that is what determines how we live our lives. ... 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? ...

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Others say that life was created by nature, but how is that possible? ... Nevertheless, we all know that life is essential; it is the only way in which we can achieve understanding. ... But we are all similar in the fact that we choose are own paths and that is what determines how we live our lives. ... 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? ...

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I don't feel that people should have to die to maintain U.S. standard of living and this was something that I never really thought about. ... The whole thing was so bad, no matter how you look at it, that we can't ever let anything like this ever happen again." ... In considering this we may over come all violence and live in a better world. We are reading this at a significant time and I feel this is a mu! ... No matter who we are or what we've been through-the lessons of life have to take us forward. ...

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Out there in this world some one is crying, out there in this world someone is dying. ... On a day to day basis so many people all over the world die, die because of natural and unnatural causes, but we live on. At one point or another in life we began to value a possession or safekeeping, but how long will it out last you? ... With out life how could you operate and do the things you do to show that you care, with out life what could you do? Nothing, and without life, how could I express myself? ...

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On one end, there could be a heaven where we go when we die and live in forever bliss for eternity. On the other end, there could be nothing at all, no after life, meaning we only have one chance to experience life in this universe, we live and die and the universe moves on. ... How?... But I'd like to believe that we live on after we die. I'd like to believe we become one with the universe when we die (and that we can feel this oneness while still alive like I personally have). ...

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We cannot prevent abuse of a system. ... My next argument is in regards to self inflicted suicide, and how society has determined that it's not illegal. ... This does not mean we should not prevent suicide when we can. ... In most cases we certainly should, because for those considering suicide, typically have very bad reasons for wanting to die, and need help, but suicide cannot be properly prevented in all cases. ... But if so, we get the presumption that in just those circumstances in which we should not prevent persons from bringing about their own death, we can appropriately help the...

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His mother died when he was very young, shortly after his father had abandoned them. ... This is common when two people part ways, or after a loved one dies. ... We get a real sense of how helpless Poe felt about life. ... It really makes you consider how everything we have in life is going to be taken from us at some point. ... " He could be saying that we all have a finite amount of time here, and no matter how hard we try to hold on to it we can do nothing to slow it down. ...

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The world we live in is thousand years old. ... Many animals and human beings were born and died. ... For what they did and how it affected them and other people. ... Thus we see death is made valid by the tasks of life. ... A man does not have to work that hard if he wants to die. ...

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The worst thing is how a person dies, and that was the case of my beloved grandfather who nurtured me to his last second. ... He moved our whole family from the life we once had, to the one that could fulfill our destiny to the unbreakable proportions. We once lived in the communist era of Russia and you know how life was up there. ... At times my family and I had it all, until my grandfather died of cancer. What a worse way to die than that in a very slow and painful death. ...

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Human Limitation of Knowledge Human beings are put on this earth not knowing where we came from or why we are here. ... Death is part of life and we are all going to die sometime but if everyone knew when it would happen it would create panic among everyone. ... It would also create carelessness among the world because people who knew that they were going to die soon wouldn't go to work or take care or their normal responsibilities. ... Rumi's works have taught me a lot about why we don't know the stuff that we don't. Humans just aren't meant to know their future or...

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We train more doctors and lawyers than we need but fewer teachers. ... Let me die!". ... Anyone who's been in a cancer center or ward can easily see how much people can suffer before they die. ... (Barry 405) People have a right to die with dignity. ... Just as we respect people's right to live with dignity, so we must respect their right to die with dignity. ...

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Reading this story makes one understand that we must always realize that death can be near and we must always tell our loved one that we love them, and that we must not ever try to understand why the timing of our demise. Usually, most of us would believe that the confrontation with death is negative as no one wants to die. After reading the story To Build a Fire one would understand how one can be oblivious to the fact that they can die at any time. ... Reading this story makes one realize that we are in this life together, we must learn from one another, and never believe we know all. ...

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Their love for each other is especially showcased in the scenes in which they die. ... 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. ... The best example of how a moment can affect the rest of your life is the "And then" pictures that are shown throughout the movie. ... And then, we are shown pictures of him becoming a homeless bum. ...

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He is an example how people are going to get used to it and it will lead people to become murderers. ... This is how bad things could get. ... Natural dying is when a person dies by him/her self, naturally, not by someone killing him/her. ... Are we sometimes being a little too godlike ourselves?" ... A physician is not a hundred percent sure that a patient will die. ...

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Today's society has many different names for it such as: suicide, self-deliverance, auto-euthanasia, aid-in-dying, assisted suicide, death with dignity, and playing God. ... I think that the improvement in terminal cared is directly effects how good treatments to minimize suffering. ... With these machines the life may not be to the best of quality, how can anyone know that one is not being deprive of a valuable period of god life. ... I also believe that when our time here is over we will just die, rather it is fast or slow, we will be gone. ... Who are we to ...

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It's understanding what we can do - the very best we can do. ... So how do these two words apply to life today? By nature, we want our lives to be full. ... Appreciate it the best way you know how. ... Live as if you were going to die tomorrow." ...

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In life we all might have a love; high situation with a love one or a friend. ... When he say's "The Grave's a fine and private place (To His Coy Mistress pg123); it makes you think he will try as hard as he possible can if that means he to wait till death do them part; but you might as well give it up now because when we die nobody is going to be able to take it from you than. ... She might think that's a wonderful thing because she will have someone who will love her till she dies. I feel like this poem is one of those live till we are dead situation; meaning since we are both...

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As we face death with family and friends we should know the serious concerns associated with understanding and facing death. ... We all experience or may have experienced the loss of someone either through death or them just leaving, this loss will affect how we cope, live our lives and our culture. ... For example my grandmother's daughter died from melanoma cancer that was undiagnosed until it was stage four, anger feelings took control of my grandmother and fast. ... Traditionally the deceased is then dressed in white, except if it is a married woman who dies before her husband, she is...

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We all experiences all sort of battles in our lives. ... When something bad happens, we are likely to stick in the past. But how do we get rid of these bad feelings and when will it happen? ... We do not know how they lost their son, but the text tells in p. 3 l. 122-123: ''We attended a group for parents of children who died in preventable accidents'' that it was not a natural death (it never is when children die), but it must have been a terrible accident when they could have prevented it from happening, and they must have a lot of bad guilt in them. ... He describes ho...

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What do we live for? ... We are alive in a play, our own individual play in which we, the character, goes through life interacting with others. ... If this play should find itself an author, then he will never die. ... He cannot die. ... The affect will be rather - apart from the makeup- according to how he supposes I am, as he senses me."" ...

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Today as I look back at it, I imagine how horrible it must have been to be him. ... I think the hospital just wanted to get every cent they could before he died. ... Is it because we value human life more? ... We obviously realize that a life full of agony and anguish should not be forced to continue, but we are reluctant to end the torment. ... Terminally ill patients like Martha eventually die, and most of the time it is a painful death. ...

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In this poem he presents how the way one lives affects the way one faces death. ... They know that when they die that legacy will die with them and they will lose any hope they had of immortality in legend. ... By saying they "learn too late" he is saying they don't realize until death truly is upon them, how fruitless it was to live that way and how much they truly missed in life. ... Even though they are so close to death, in the second line he describes how they can still be happy or feel joy. ... He tries to show what we all feel and often realize only when it is too late. ...

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