As time has
progressed, humans have made significant improvements in having a longer
lifespan. Every day, scientists are one step closer to curing cancer: the major
cause of death today. Although this seems amazing for every person to live a 100
years and even more, wouldn't this actually have terrible consequences for
human beings?
Think about
it. If everyone lived forever the Earth's population would rise and would
probably cause chaos for areas that already have population problems. Gas
prices could rise, food shortages, and unemployment would disrupt human
society. So would accepting death as a natural process be better than trying to
get around it?
In William
Cullen Bryant's Thanatopsis, he offers a peaceful view of death, comfort for the living, and no matter
what a person's religious beliefs, the poem is still applicable. Thanatopsis
views death as part of the return to
nature, like death is just another phase of life itself. Thanatopsis also
tells the reader that he/she will not go to death alone. Everyone who has ever
died will already be there. Everyone who hasn't gone yet will be there
eventually. Social class or age does not matter; we all share one thing, and
that one thing is death.
All in all Bryant's poem is moving to human society who wants to get
around death. People should accept death and think of it as a positive way.
When a generation dies off, a new generation will take its place and continue
the great progress of human society.
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