The subject matter contained within the poem, On the Death of Ronald Ryan is designed to evoke the reader’s own feelings on capital punishment. The body of the poem depicts the last minutes of the life of Ronald Ryan. We are given startling image of Ryan on the trapdoor, bravely waiting his end. A biographical detail is used, that he refused to be tranquilised. This makes him appear noble and brave, despite the fact that he was a murderer he is the one who emerges from this event with dignity, ‘You died most horrifyingly like a man.’ We are also made to feel guilty as he as described as ‘white faced’ beneath his hood.
They seem to be indifferent to the fact that they have killed someone because assassination merely becomes their ‘job.’ In a similar manner, Generals Die in Bed by Charles Yale Harrison, is inclusive of the same insensitiveness and indifference towards the death and murdering of people. The narrator says, “I lunge forward aiming at his stomach. It is a lightening, instinctive move…I become insane…I want to strike again and again.”(Harrison, 26-27) Since this was an “instinctive” move, he didn’t even think over the fact that he is taking someone’s life nor have any humane feelings which prove that he has become inhumane towards a person’s life. In addition, a humane individual would experience feelings of regret and guilt, but instead he has the urge to stab him continuously. He becomes one of the negative byproducts of the war because it causes him to become “insane” and inconsiderate towards the sentimental values associated with death.
A vibrant selection That we will all die as we know, even though many do not want to talk about it. The only question is when and how. We all take responsibility for our own lives. Do we not also take responsibility for our own death if given the opportunity? In politics, the question of euthanasia really taboo laid.
Isn’t it an even greater evil to watch these people suffer if you have the capacity to help them by giving them a lethal injection and ending their pain? Hence, why is that act of killing then wrong? This essay aims to consider how active euthanasia is nearly identical to passive euthanasia and discuss how the difference between them makes no difference to their moral assessments. In order to clearly distinguish active from passive euthanasia, Rachels outlines the difference between ‘killing’ and ‘letting die’. In both the cases, the doctor who is trying to help his/her patient and/or his family has the same intended end: the death of the patient.
Her death caused much commotion to all the people who new her; the closer they were to her, the more they suffered. This is why the murder of Cassetti is looked at as justifiable. In Christie’s book many passengers denounced Cassetti, ”If ever a man deserved what he got, Ratchett or Cassetti is the man. I'm rejoiced at his end. Such a man wasn't fit to live!” and "I did so rejoice that that evil man was dead – that he could not any more kill or torture little children.
I chose to compare “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas and “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson. Dylan Thomas depicts the inevitability of death through repetition. He discussed the stages of a man’s life with his on comparison to “good men, wild men, and grave men.” It portrays a son and his dying father, and his son’s plea for his father to hold on to life. Dylan Thomas “Born October 17, 1914, Swansea, Wales-died November 9, 1953. New York, N.Y., U.S.” (The Chronology of American Literature) Thomas dropped out of school and worked as a reporter at the early age of sixteen, in 1939, he wrote “The Map of Love” which soon made him famous; the poem contained a rich metaphoric language and emotional intensity.
Because fear and pain does not play a role on this utopian society, let alone death, the term “Release” was created to veil the true meaning of death. When Jonas found out the true meaning of Release through watching his father release a baby, he felt so angry and confused that his own father killed a baby with his own hands. However, the Giver calmed him and explained to him: “Listen to me, Jonas. They can’t help it. They know nothing….
Owen starts the second stanza with an ironic ‘merry.’ The war front was not a happy place, but a place filled with intense pain and death. In the next line Owen exposes reality of how ‘death becomes absurd and life absurder’ and how soldiers lost all morality and became desensitised as they felt no ‘remorse of murder.’ The soldiers were trained to be mindless tools of their government as they did what they were ordered to do without questioning the morality of what they were instructed to do. Owen personifies fear as something which can be ‘dropped off’. Fear can be paralysing which can be disastrous for a soldier. ‘Behind the barrage, dead as my platoon’
Hamlet kills Polonius behind the tapestry because he suspects that it might be Claudius, but when he unveils the body and discovers that it is Polonius, he shows no sign of guilt at all. He acts like he is “convinced that he is the complete master of an obviously unhealthy situation” (Prosser Pg. 125). A person who wants nothing more but justice for the death of a loved one would feel bad for killing an innocent person during the process, but that is not the case with Hamlet. He shows no sign of guilt or remorse towards the death of Polonius, because he is clearly past the point of justice and is seeking revenge.
We die because we die and we live because we live, there’s no other explanation. Our past, present and future determine the existence we had, an existence so meaningful or an existence so dreadful. At times, we hate living to the point we considered it as a curse. A curse, that we suffered so much that our future is hopeless and we have irrationally thinking of suicide. A curse that we didn’t see any value existence hold and only looked at is as a “never-ending spiral of life and death”.