The Nazis inhumanity and brutality slowly diminished his hope and desire to live. Despite Elie’s constant battle, it is from the interaction with other characters that he is able to maintain his hope. Elie depends on his father for support, and his love for his father makes him strengthen his hope and desire to live. When they arrived at the camp, his father said that he would rather Elie to go with his mother than to see what they were going to experience as men. The father began to cry and this was the only time that Elie saw his father cry.
Viktor Frankl, a psychologist and holocaust survivor himself, proved his main philosophy of Logotherapy saying that one could live only for as long as one’s life has meaning (The Belief Engine). Frankl confirmed his theory when he observed that those who survived the concentration camps were those with a reason to live (Logotherapy In a Nutshell). Frankl lived by Nietzsche’s words, “he who has a why to live for can bare with almost any how.” He believed that if people could find a meaning in their sufferings, and even probable death, that they could survive any situation. At the time, it was demonstrated that prisoners who allowed themselves to be overwhelmed by despair, who gave up their freedom to make decisions, suffered from paralytic apathy and depression (Baker). Frankl’s observations prove that a path to survival is in pursuing one’s life, past, future, and family.
Elie Wiesel shows the horrors of inhumanity in his novel, Night, a true story of his experiences in the concentration camps. He writes about the tribulations of the camps and how a bad day for the Kapo could mean death for the prisoners. Strides in tolerance have been made since the Holocaust. John Aloysius Farrell, in his essay, “Why Do They Visit?”, tries to show that humans have overcome the modern day dark ages. Farrell tells the story of the opening of the U.S Holocaust museum and everyone’s doubt of it being a success.
Other than that, it was not easy for George to shoot Lennie but he had to do it because if he didn’t he knew that Curley would and in a more painful way. Therefore George had to make the sacrifice and be the one who shoots Lennie himself so that Lennie wouldn’t have to suffer. Without Lennie, George also faces other problems on his own such as loneliness with no one to care for and no one to care for himself. Steinbeck’s characterization plays an important role in showing how Lennie himself brought him to his own death. On page 2 of the novel, Steinbeck gives a description of Lennie: “Behind
A lot of the captives including Elie, started to curse God and stop Rosh Hashanah. That was exactly what the Germans wanted: to erase all identity the Jews had for themselves. But even after having these thoughts, they made time to pray. To keep their spirits alive and even if they were in the worse condition imaginable, they were able to keep their fate. Elie’s father plays an important role in this story.
Just maybe it should be a human right. Along if their decision is not acted out in public, nor does it put anyone else in danger. In his essay “The Right to Die,” Norman Cousins contended that the idea of someone committing suicide is often looked down upon by society. Even beyond the respect towards religion. Norman also suggested the need to reevaluate the true significance of being alive.
Frankl's story of his survival of Nazi concentration camps is by now famous. It presents perhaps the ultimate "if he could do it, so can you" case study. Most of our complaints and problems are trivial compared to Frankl's plight as a condemned Jew in Nazi Germany. Reading his Man's Search for Meaning it is difficult to not feel shame over our own trifling complaints. Frankl's message is that the ultimate human freedom is the freedom to control our attitude toward the situations we inherit.
Ewart was an American who had gotten a disease that causes his organs to shrink for a long time. He chose to die by euthanasia, to end his pain of his own accord finally. He said that Motoneuron disease made him tired and he had no will to live. If he was in so much pain by the disease, he would still want to live, but there were too much pain. From Steven Ertelt’s article, we knew that Ewart said, if he chose to live, he would suffer illness, but it did not mean he could cure the disease and have a new life (2008).
The main reason I’m against assisted suicide is Its God's place to decide the time and place of a person's death. I reply that assisted death is a moral issue that has to be resolved on the basis of principles we use to deal with every other question about right and wrong, not a special case. Besides, the implication of this objection is that we should never interfere with the course of any life-threatening condition. To intervene would challenge God's prerogative to determine the time and place of death. In some cases this objection is made by proposing that to take innocent life is playing
The last for of euthanasia is “involuntary” which is done without the persons consent for example when they are in a coma and the doctors know that he/she will not come out of it. All in all euthanasia is an action that is taken only when a person a suffering from a terminal illness in order to alleviate their pain and suffering and has no intentions of causing harm to the person. Every person has the right to life but under extenuating circumstances death seems to be the better option and a person suffering has the right to make that decision. Many people wonder “How bad would the quality of someone’s life have to be before they can choose to end it?” and the answer is that it is a