Dying wasn’t an option Let’s rewind back a few hours before my family and I almost died. We traveled a lot when I was a young child. One of the many places we would visit often was New Jersey, where my dad is from. At the time my sister was seven years old, my younger brother was four and I was six. For the moment, we were living in the heart of a small town in South Carolina during the summer of nineteen ninety-seven. At home it was noon time and we were inside. Mother and dad were outside busy being adults. It was dim in the house, quiet, and not much to look at. The décor was very bland with brown walls, beige carpet and regular furniture. Sitting on the floor half way in the hall and bedroom my sister and I shared, I was played with my …show more content…
We’re dropping and picking up whatever, putting things back, and asking what should we bring. The rush of it all. We weren’t expecting to be going anywhere, but we were up for it because we enjoyed road trips. As we were loading the van, getting buckled in safely, I asked mother out of curiosity, “Mommy, where are we going?” “To visit your grandmother in New Jersey.” She replied. Well we’ve been on the road for some time now, its evening. I noticed everyone was sleeping. The radio was off, the only sounds came from light breathing from a couple of sleepy heads. Out of nowhere, I felt this sudden swerve. I moved a good bit in the seat. My first thought was to wonder what all of that was about. Since dad was driving, I thought I peek around to see what he was doing up there. HE WAS ASLEEP! I had eyes as wide as an owl after what I discovered. I wasn’t scared. I had this calm feeling come over me. The danger of it all didn’t quiet register quickly for me during that moment. I was thinking about how sleeping and driving shouldn’t be happening at the same time. Thinking I should wake mother up, I was very soft spoken and gentle. I didn’t want to startle her. I began to nudge her left shoulder a few times and started to call for her to wake …show more content…
We kept swerving, as if dad was in and out of sleep trying to focus, but failed. Still trying to wake mother up, adding the fact that dad was asleep, while this time shaking her shoulder a little harder. Finally, she woke up. I felt like I could breathe again in complete relief. She quickly realized what was happening and reached for the steering wheel to control the direction of the car and began calling for dad to wake up. Her voice much stronger than mine but without disturbing my sister and brother from their
In the Victorian Britain there was 88 minors were killed from the start of 1851 to the end of 1851 from many, many different things. I am talking about deaths in Victorian Britain and what I think the deaths mean is that the people who died, died cruelly. There may be some people who die of accidental deaths but most people die of a cruel death. The Victorians viewed death as a sad time because the deaths caused a great deal of sadness and pain to the person's family mates and friends.
For some, coping with death is the end of a journey, but to others, it is the beginning of change. The novel, The Hero's Walk, explores the meaning of this statement through the death of Maya. Because of her death, the people who are close to her, such as her father, Sripathi, begin to suffer. However, he eventually experiences a positive change after coping with her death. In Anita Rau Badami's novel, The Hero's Walk, Maya's death is a major turning point which affects the life of Sripathi; ultimately, this loss contributes to his major character development.
The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail. (excerpt-Faulkner's Nobel Prize acceptance speech)
Death is a topic that is often not discussed in the western culture. When the topic of death
The recent death of Riley Hughes and numerous other deaths of babies arouses the attention of the public to the serious issue of anti-vaccination and whether or not parents should vaccinate their infants. In the opinion piece entitled "Don't let any more babies die because of anti-vaccination lobby" published in The Herald Sun on March 24, 2015, author Susie O'Brien targets especially the anti-vaccinators parents of the young children, in addition to the general adherents of it. Accordingly，it professes the opinion of the parents should definitely vaccinate their infants to preclude them from suffering from the fatal diseases. Consequently, the incipient tone that O' Breins used is distressed towards the fact of a number of babies died from
As my family piled into our car for our four-hour drive, I sincerely hoped my brothers wouldn’t ruin the best chance that we’ve had in a long time. They were already arguing about who got what video game, and were not making my mom and dad feel any better about going. We were going to Illinois, to Chicago, to be even more specific. Chicago was the city I’d been dreaming about visiting for a long time. (Well, that and New York.) I could not believe that my parents were getting out of their comfort zone and taking us to a big city.
This is crazy. Why am I afraid? I’m acting as if this is my first funeral. Funerals have become a given, especially with a life like mine, the deaths of my father, my uncle and not my biological mother, you would think I could be somewhat used to them by now. Now I know what you’re thinking, death is all a part of life. But the amount of death that I’ve experienced in my life would make anyone cower away from the thought. This funeral is nothing compared to those unhappy events.
I did not know it at the time, but in November of 2005, I was knocking on death’s door. I was living in Naperville, IL with my girlfriend and her family. It was a few days before Thanksgiving, and the family was preparing for the holiday celebration. I was starting to feel a bit under the weather, but it was flu season.
In Lewis Thomas’s short story “On Natural Death” he talks about mouse being killed by a cat and how the mouse really feels no pain during his process of dying because of the hormones being released into his body. He then quotes Montaigne and what he had to say about his own personal experience with death and how death should not be worried about.
With music blasting, voices singing and talking, it was another typical ride to school with my sister. Because of our belated departure, I went fast, too fast. We started down the first road to our destination. This road is about three miles long and filled with little hills. As we broke the top of one of the small, blind hills in the middle of the right lane was a dead deer. Without any thought, purely by instinct I pulled the wheel of the car to the left and back over to the right. No big deal but I was going fast. The car swerved back to the left, to the right, to the left. Each time I could feel the car scratching the earth with its side. My body jolted with the sporadic movements of the car. The car swerved to the right for the last time. With my eyes sealed tight, I could feel my body float off the seat of the car.
Americans view death and dying in a different way than other cultures. Americans fear death, so they avoid it in any way they can. Rather than thinking death is a natural and another chance in the afterlife, Americans fear the end of a life. What happens after life is unknown; therefore, it must not be explored. Because the fear of the unknown, words such as “death” or “dying” are replaced with other phrases.
Every life story ends with death. Everyone knows this without thinking about it. In Margaret Atwood’s short story Happy Endings she puts forth that all stories end in death, insinuating there is no such thing as a happy ending. To prove this point, she gives examples of the possible relationship scenarios of John and Mary. Some are happy, some are tragic, and each end in death, reinforced with the words, “John and Mary die. John and Mary die. John and Mary die.” The fact that everyone dies does not need proving. It is a fact and not a happy one Ms. Atwood is recently joined by a vast number of authors writing dystopian style stories that foreshadow a very bleak future for mankind indeed, namely mass destruction and death. Yet
You are a newborn baby in 3015. The very first thing you learn is to unlock an Iphone and text. You remember the smile smiley emoji your parents send you when you successfully type ‘dad’ and ‘mom’ for the first time. Texting is crucial to learn as no one talks. You know clearly that no texting means no communication and loneliness.
My mom and I arrived at my great aunt’s house in Ely, Nevada at around dinnertime. We both decided it was time to get some sleep due to our long drive. My mom had asked me to wake her up if my dad did not call or arrive by midnight. She was obviously very tired from driving and I had slept most of the way anyways. I could tell my mom was very worried about my dad because he was traveling on his Harley Davidson, and the roads were dangerous. My innocent ten-year-old mind did not think anything bad could happen,
I was exhausted and had seen many owls, and snakes, and deer. But towards the end of my shift I was so tired that I had slowly drifted away and was awoken by the loud thud of a tree or a branch or even a truck being flipped or turned around on its back, but we were miles from a road and if it was a branch it was a pretty big one. So it was fifteen minutes until my shift was over and I was so tired that I couldn't finish my shift, so I went and got Billy,